Lectures on the English Comic WritersWiley and Putnam, 1845 - 222 pagina's |
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... human life ; for it is in a manner compounded of these two ! It is a tragedy or a comedy - sad or merry , as it happens . The crimes and misfortunes that are inseparable from it , shock and wound the mind when they once seize upon it ...
... human life ; for it is in a manner compounded of these two ! It is a tragedy or a comedy - sad or merry , as it happens . The crimes and misfortunes that are inseparable from it , shock and wound the mind when they once seize upon it ...
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... human life . is the gaiety of despair , the mirth and laughter of a respite during pleasure from death . The strongest instances of ef- fectual and harrowing imagination are in the story of Amine and her three sisters , whom she led by ...
... human life . is the gaiety of despair , the mirth and laughter of a respite during pleasure from death . The strongest instances of ef- fectual and harrowing imagination are in the story of Amine and her three sisters , whom she led by ...
Pagina 16
... human heart with a word that explains its hollow- ness at once . Voltaire's saying , in answer to a stranger who was observing how tall his trees grew- " That they had nothing else to do , " was a quaint mixture of wit and humour ...
... human heart with a word that explains its hollow- ness at once . Voltaire's saying , in answer to a stranger who was observing how tall his trees grew- " That they had nothing else to do , " was a quaint mixture of wit and humour ...
Pagina 25
... human life , without elevation or enthusiasm , and the illustration of it is of that quaint and famil- iar kind that is merely curious and fanciful . Cowley is an in- stance of the same kind in almost all his writings . Many of the ...
... human life , without elevation or enthusiasm , and the illustration of it is of that quaint and famil- iar kind that is merely curious and fanciful . Cowley is an in- stance of the same kind in almost all his writings . Many of the ...
Pagina 26
... humanity most abominably , " without laughing immoderately ? We overlook the farce and mummery of human life in little , and for nothing ; and what is still better , it costs them who have to play in it nothing . We place the mirth ...
... humanity most abominably , " without laughing immoderately ? We overlook the farce and mummery of human life in little , and for nothing ; and what is still better , it costs them who have to play in it nothing . We place the mirth ...
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Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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?
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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...
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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!
Pagina 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.