Lectures on the English Comic WritersWiley and Putnam, 1845 - 222 من الصفحات |
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... observing how saucy the fellow was , said to the gentleman , " Sir , if you will lend me your cane for a moment , I'll give him a good threshing for his impertinence . " The old gentleman , smiling at the proposal , handed him his cane ...
... observing how saucy the fellow was , said to the gentleman , " Sir , if you will lend me your cane for a moment , I'll give him a good threshing for his impertinence . " The old gentleman , smiling at the proposal , handed him his cane ...
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... observe , that " certain modern poets would be read and admired when Homer and Virgil were forgotten , " made answer ... observing how tall his trees grew- " That they had nothing else to do , " was a quaint mixture of wit and humour ...
... observe , that " certain modern poets would be read and admired when Homer and Virgil were forgotten , " made answer ... observing how tall his trees grew- " That they had nothing else to do , " was a quaint mixture of wit and humour ...
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... observation , as in discriminating be- tween pretence and practice , between appearance and reality , is common to ... observe differently the things that pass through their imagina- tion . And whereas in this succession of thoughts ...
... observation , as in discriminating be- tween pretence and practice , between appearance and reality , is common to ... observe differently the things that pass through their imagina- tion . And whereas in this succession of thoughts ...
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... observation , which consists in the acute illustration of good sense and practical wisdom by means of some far - fetched conceit or quaint imagery . The mat- ter is sense , but the form is wit . Thus the lines in Pope- " Tis with our ...
... observation , which consists in the acute illustration of good sense and practical wisdom by means of some far - fetched conceit or quaint imagery . The mat- ter is sense , but the form is wit . Thus the lines in Pope- " Tis with our ...
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... observation , and an acquaintance with the modes of arti- ficial life , to describe it with the utmost possible grace and pre- cision . Congreve , who had every other opportunity , was but a young man when he wrote this character ; and ...
... observation , and an acquaintance with the modes of arti- ficial life , to describe it with the utmost possible grace and pre- cision . Congreve , who had every other opportunity , was but a young man when he wrote this character ; and ...
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الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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?
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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!
الصفحة 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.