The Collected Works of William Hazlitt: Lectures on the English comic writers. A view of the English stage. Dramatic essays from 'The London magazine.'J. M. Dent & Company, 1903 |
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... action is the most striking thing in it , the ludicrous prevails over the pathetic , and we receive pleasure instead of pain from the farce of life which is played before us , and which discomposes our gravity as often as it fails to ...
... action is the most striking thing in it , the ludicrous prevails over the pathetic , and we receive pleasure instead of pain from the farce of life which is played before us , and which discomposes our gravity as often as it fails to ...
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... actions . Of these different kinds or degrees of the laughable , the first is the most shallow and short - lived ; for the instant the immediate surprise of a thing's merely happening one way or another is over , there is nothing to ...
... actions . Of these different kinds or degrees of the laughable , the first is the most shallow and short - lived ; for the instant the immediate surprise of a thing's merely happening one way or another is over , there is nothing to ...
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... the highest sense , as being on a par with , and the same as Nature , in her greatest heights and depths of action and suffering ) There is but one who durst 30 LECTURES ON THE COMIC WRITERS LECTURE II Von Shakspeare and Ben Jonson 30-38.
... the highest sense , as being on a par with , and the same as Nature , in her greatest heights and depths of action and suffering ) There is but one who durst 30 LECTURES ON THE COMIC WRITERS LECTURE II Von Shakspeare and Ben Jonson 30-38.
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William Hazlitt Alfred Rayney Waller, Arnold Glover. action and suffering ) There is but one who durst walk within that mighty circle , treading the utmost bound of nature and passion , shewing us the dread abyss of woe in all its ...
William Hazlitt Alfred Rayney Waller, Arnold Glover. action and suffering ) There is but one who durst walk within that mighty circle , treading the utmost bound of nature and passion , shewing us the dread abyss of woe in all its ...
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... action , and expression , which are intelligible only while they last , and not very interesting at any time . Shakspeare's characters are men ; Ben Jonson's are more like machines , governed by mere routine , or by the convenience of ...
... action , and expression , which are intelligible only while they last , and not very interesting at any time . Shakspeare's characters are men ; Ben Jonson's are more like machines , governed by mere routine , or by the convenience of ...
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الصفحة 182 - O, here Will I set up my everlasting rest And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars From this world-wearied flesh.
الصفحة 179 - I have liv'd long enough : my way of life Is fallen into the sear, the yellow leaf : And that which should accompany old age, As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have ; but, in their stead, Curses not loud, but deep, mouth-honour, breath, Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not.
الصفحة 47 - Why so pale and wan, fond lover? Prithee, why so pale? Will, when looking well can't move her, Looking ill prevail? Prithee, why so pale?
الصفحة 386 - Methinks I should know you and know this man; yet I am doubtful: for I am mainly ignorant what place this is, and all the skill I have remembers not these garments; nor I know not where I did lodge last night.
الصفحة 48 - Her lips were red; and one was thin Compared to that was next her chin, Some bee had stung it newly: But, Dick, her eyes so guard her face, I durst no more upon them gaze Than on the sun in July.
الصفحة 385 - Tom? whom the foul fiend hath led through fire and through flame, through ford and whirlpool, o'er bog and quagmire; that hath laid knives under his pillow, and halters in his pew...
الصفحة 407 - Man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority, Plays such fantastic tricks before high Heaven As make the angels weep.
الصفحة 239 - All school-days' friendship, childhood innocence ? We, Hermia, like two artificial gods, Have with our needles created both one flower, Both on one sampler, sitting on one cushion, Both warbling of one song, both in one key ; As if our hands, our sides...
الصفحة 384 - No, you unnatural hags, I will have such revenges on you both, That all the world shall — I will do such things — What they are yet I know not ; but they shall be The terrors of the earth.
الصفحة 15 - Wit lying most in the assemblage of Ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant Pictures, and agreeable Visions in the fancy...