Lectures on the English Poets, and the English Comic WritersBell, 1869 - 232 páginas |
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... stage . Society , by degrees , is constructed into a machine that carries us safely and insipidly from one end of life to the other , in a very comfortable prose style : " Obscurity her curtain round them drew , And siren Sloth a dull ...
... stage . Society , by degrees , is constructed into a machine that carries us safely and insipidly from one end of life to the other , in a very comfortable prose style : " Obscurity her curtain round them drew , And siren Sloth a dull ...
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... stages of the arts , as soon as the first mechanical difficulties had been got over , and the language was sufficiently acquired , they rose by clusters and in constellations , never so to rise again ! The arts of painting and poetry ...
... stages of the arts , as soon as the first mechanical difficulties had been got over , and the language was sufficiently acquired , they rose by clusters and in constellations , never so to rise again ! The arts of painting and poetry ...
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... stage . A word , an epithet , paints a whole scene , or throws us back whole years in the history of the person represented . So ( as it has been ingeniously remarked ) when Prospero describes himself as left alone in the boat with his ...
... stage . A word , an epithet , paints a whole scene , or throws us back whole years in the history of the person represented . So ( as it has been ingeniously remarked ) when Prospero describes himself as left alone in the boat with his ...
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... stage , are liable to be asked all sorts of questions , and are forced to answer for themselves . In Chaucer we perceive a fixed essence of character . In Shakspeare there is a continual composition and decomposition of its elements , a ...
... stage , are liable to be asked all sorts of questions , and are forced to answer for themselves . In Chaucer we perceive a fixed essence of character . In Shakspeare there is a continual composition and decomposition of its elements , a ...
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... stage . When young , indeed , In full content we sometimes nobly rest , Un - anxious for ourselves ; and only wish , As duteous sons , our fathers were more wise . At thirty man suspects himself a fool ; Knows it at forty , and reforms ...
... stage . When young , indeed , In full content we sometimes nobly rest , Un - anxious for ourselves ; and only wish , As duteous sons , our fathers were more wise . At thirty man suspects himself a fool ; Knows it at forty , and reforms ...
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absurdity admirable affectation appear beauty Beggar's Opera Ben Jonson blank verse Boccaccio character Chaucer circumstances comedy comic common critics delight Don Quixote dramatic elegance equal excellence face fame fancy feeling folly genius Gil Blas give grace happy heart Hogarth Hudibras human humour idea imagination imitation instance interest kind labour Lady language laugh less light living look Lord lover ludicrous Lyrical Ballads manners Milton mind Molière moral Muse nature never night objects original Othello painted passion person picture play pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope prose racter reader refinement ridiculous satire scene School for Scandal seems sense sentiment Shakspeare Shakspeare's sort soul speak Spenser spirit story striking style Tartuffe Tatler thee things thou thought tion Tom Jones truth turn verse vice whole William Hazlitt words writer