Lectures on the English Poets, and the English Comic WritersBell, 1869 - 232 páginas |
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... -- who was neither to laugh nor weep , to feel sorrow nor anger , to be cast down nor elated by anything * " A Midsummer Night's Dream , " v . 1.-ED. thing s hynino chan This was a chimera , however On Poetry in General . 3.
... -- who was neither to laugh nor weep , to feel sorrow nor anger , to be cast down nor elated by anything * " A Midsummer Night's Dream , " v . 1.-ED. thing s hynino chan This was a chimera , however On Poetry in General . 3.
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... laugh nor weep . The only jest in his poem is an allegorical play upon words , where he describes Malbecco as escaping in the herd of goats , " by the help of his fayre horns on hight . " But he has been unjustly charged with a want of ...
... laugh nor weep . The only jest in his poem is an allegorical play upon words , where he describes Malbecco as escaping in the herd of goats , " by the help of his fayre horns on hight . " But he has been unjustly charged with a want of ...
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... laughed heartily at his worst jokes , and the catcalls in the gallery were silent at his best passages , he went home satisfied , and slept the next night well . He did not trouble himself about Voltaire's criticisms . He was willing to ...
... laughed heartily at his worst jokes , and the catcalls in the gallery were silent at his best passages , he went home satisfied , and slept the next night well . He did not trouble himself about Voltaire's criticisms . He was willing to ...
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... laugh at or admire , put them on or off like a masquerade dress , make much or little of them , indulge them for a longer or a shorter time , as he pleased ; and because , while they amused his fancy and exercised his ingenuity , they ...
... laugh at or admire , put them on or off like a masquerade dress , make much or little of them , indulge them for a longer or a shorter time , as he pleased ; and because , while they amused his fancy and exercised his ingenuity , they ...
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... laugh or weep . It is the triumph of insignificance , the apotheosis of foppery and folly . It is the perfection of the mock - heroic ! I will give only the two following passages in illustration of these remarks . Can anything be more ...
... laugh or weep . It is the triumph of insignificance , the apotheosis of foppery and folly . It is the perfection of the mock - heroic ! I will give only the two following passages in illustration of these remarks . Can anything be more ...
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