Lectures on the English Comic WritersWiley and Putnam, 1845 - 222 strán (strany) |
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... thought of : it fixes the maximum of littleness and insignificance ; but it is not by likeness to any- thing else that it does this , but by literally taking the lowest possible duration of ephemeral reputation , marking it ( as with a ...
... thought of : it fixes the maximum of littleness and insignificance ; but it is not by likeness to any- thing else that it does this , but by literally taking the lowest possible duration of ephemeral reputation , marking it ( as with a ...
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... , in proportion as the thought suggested is more com- plete and satisfactory , from its being inherent in the nature of the things themselves . Hæret lateri lethalis arundo . Truth LECTURE I. ] 21 ON WIT AND HUMOUR .
... , in proportion as the thought suggested is more com- plete and satisfactory , from its being inherent in the nature of the things themselves . Hæret lateri lethalis arundo . Truth LECTURE I. ] 21 ON WIT AND HUMOUR .
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... thoughts ; by instilling gaiety and airi- ness of spirit ; by provoking to such dispositions of spirit , in way of ... thought satirical often runs through whole families in country places , to the great annoyance of their neigh- bours ...
... thoughts ; by instilling gaiety and airi- ness of spirit ; by provoking to such dispositions of spirit , in way of ... thought satirical often runs through whole families in country places , to the great annoyance of their neigh- bours ...
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... thought it cost Shakspeare to write his trage- dies , only showed the labour which it cost the critic in reading them , that is , his general indisposition to sympathise heartily and spontaneously with works of high - wrought passion or ...
... thought it cost Shakspeare to write his trage- dies , only showed the labour which it cost the critic in reading them , that is , his general indisposition to sympathise heartily and spontaneously with works of high - wrought passion or ...
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... thought a great man among his dependents and followers ; Si- lence is nobody - not even in his own opinion ; yet he sits in the orchard , and eats his carraways and pippins among the rest . Shakspeare takes up the meanest subjects with ...
... thought a great man among his dependents and followers ; Si- lence is nobody - not even in his own opinion ; yet he sits in the orchard , and eats his carraways and pippins among the rest . Shakspeare takes up the meanest subjects with ...
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Strana 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.
Strana 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.
Strana 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.
Strana 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?
Strana 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.
Strana 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.
Strana 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...
Strana 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.
Strana 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!
Strana 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.