Lectures on the English Comic WritersWiley and Putnam, 1845 - 222 sidor |
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... leaves no time nor inclination for painful reflections . The essence of the laughable then is the incongruous , the disconnecting one idea from another , or the jostling of one feel- ing against another . The first and most obvious ...
... leaves no time nor inclination for painful reflections . The essence of the laughable then is the incongruous , the disconnecting one idea from another , or the jostling of one feel- ing against another . The first and most obvious ...
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... leaves light . " Any one must be mainly ignorant or thoughtless , who is surprised at everything he sees ; or wonderfully conceited , who expects everything to conform to his standard of propriety . Clowns and idiots laugh on all ...
... leaves light . " Any one must be mainly ignorant or thoughtless , who is surprised at everything he sees ; or wonderfully conceited , who expects everything to conform to his standard of propriety . Clowns and idiots laugh on all ...
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... leaves his mistress , after every proof of her attach- ment and constancy , for no other reason than that she will not submit to the technical formality of going to live with him in a wilderness ? The characters , again , which Celimene ...
... leaves his mistress , after every proof of her attach- ment and constancy , for no other reason than that she will not submit to the technical formality of going to live with him in a wilderness ? The characters , again , which Celimene ...
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... leaves among , ( Voluptuous and wise withal , Epicurean animal ! ) Sated with thy summer feast , Thou retir'st to endless rest . " Cowley's Essays are among the most agreeable prose compo- sitions in our language , being equally ...
... leaves among , ( Voluptuous and wise withal , Epicurean animal ! ) Sated with thy summer feast , Thou retir'st to endless rest . " Cowley's Essays are among the most agreeable prose compo- sitions in our language , being equally ...
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... leaves no doubt , by its effect upon the ear , that she would have made it good in the sequel , if she had not been provided for . Her indifference to the man she is to marry , and her attachment to the finery and the title , are ...
... leaves no doubt , by its effect upon the ear , that she would have made it good in the sequel , if she had not been provided for . Her indifference to the man she is to marry , and her attachment to the finery and the title , are ...
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Sida 116 - The warbling woodland, the resounding shore, The pomp of groves, and garniture of fields; All that the genial ray of morning gilds, And all that echoes to the song of even, All that the mountain's sheltering bosom shields, And all the dread magnificence of heaven, O how canst thou renounce, and hope to be forgiven ! X.
Sida 133 - At thirty man suspects himself a fool ; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan ; At fifty chides his infamous delay, Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve; In all the magnanimity of thought Resolves and re-resolves; then dies the same.
Sida 187 - But Nature, in due course of time, once more Shall here put on her beauty and her bloom. "She leaves these objects to a slow decay, That what we are, and have been, may be known ; But at the coming of the milder day These monuments shall all be overgrown.
Sida 74 - What though the field be lost? All is not lost; the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield: And what is else not to be overcome?
Sida 132 - tis madness to defer: Next day the fatal precedent will plead ; Thus on, till wisdom is push'd out of life. Procrastination is the thief of time ; Year after year it steals, till all are fled, And to the mercies of a moment leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene.
Sida 91 - Villiers lies — alas ! how changed from him, That life of pleasure, and that soul of whim ! Gallant and gay, in Cliveden's proud alcove, The bower of wanton Shrewsbury and love ; Or just as gay at council, in a ring Of mimic statesmen and their merry King.
Sida 189 - The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre, Observe degree, priority, and place, Insisture, course, proportion, season, form, Office, and custom, in all line of order...
Sida 96 - By a daisy whose leaves spread Shut when Titan goes to bed ; Or a shady bush or tree, She could more infuse in me, Than all Nature's beauties can, In some other wiser man.
Sida 158 - Kate soon will be a woefu' woman! Now, do thy speedy utmost, Meg, And win the key-stane of the brig; There, at them thou thy tail may toss, A running stream they dare na cross! But ere the key-stane she could make, The fient a tail she had to shake: For Nannie, far before the rest, Hard upon noble Maggie prest, And flew at Tam wi' furious ettle; But little wist she Maggie's mettle!
Sida 193 - Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth; And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny; and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain.