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... feels his position solid in the world ; he knows that his being is cognisable ; he knows that he has a marked place in the universe , and that he need take no extraordinary pains to advertise mankind that he is among them ; he knows ...
... feels his position solid in the world ; he knows that his being is cognisable ; he knows that he has a marked place in the universe , and that he need take no extraordinary pains to advertise mankind that he is among them ; he knows ...
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... feel than to explain it . If I should say , Alexander Pope has great wit , Charles Dickens has great humor , all would give me their assent ; but if , reversing the positions , I should say , Charles Dickens has great wit , Alexander ...
... feel than to explain it . If I should say , Alexander Pope has great wit , Charles Dickens has great humor , all would give me their assent ; but if , reversing the positions , I should say , Charles Dickens has great wit , Alexander ...
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... feeling of the ludicrous . Life is therefore full of irony ! In the wit of Falstaff there is a ceaseless spirit of mockery ; but this mockery is always irresistibly comic . If humor be a quality which dwells in the same char- acter with ...
... feeling of the ludicrous . Life is therefore full of irony ! In the wit of Falstaff there is a ceaseless spirit of mockery ; but this mockery is always irresistibly comic . If humor be a quality which dwells in the same char- acter with ...
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... , brilliant in expression , and decisive in effect . It never falls short of its aim , and it never misses it . And this rare wit is wholly devoted to the ludicrous , unsoftened by any moral feeling , and uncurbed by any FALSTAFF . 25.
... , brilliant in expression , and decisive in effect . It never falls short of its aim , and it never misses it . And this rare wit is wholly devoted to the ludicrous , unsoftened by any moral feeling , and uncurbed by any FALSTAFF . 25.
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Henry Giles. unsoftened by any moral feeling , and uncurbed by any moral restraint . By how many modes does he extract nourishment for laughter from those around him ; what treasures of ludicrous imaginings he lavishes upon Bardolph and ...
Henry Giles. unsoftened by any moral feeling , and uncurbed by any moral restraint . By how many modes does he extract nourishment for laughter from those around him ; what treasures of ludicrous imaginings he lavishes upon Bardolph and ...
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Page 244 - Yet he was kind, or, if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was in fault. The village all declared how much he knew : 'Twas certain he could write, and cipher too ; Lands he could measure, terms and tides presage, And e'en the story ran — that he could gauge. In arguing, too, the parson owned his skill, For e'en though vanquished, he could argue still ; While words of learned length and thundering sound Amazed the gazing rustics ranged around.
Page 242 - Stern o'er each bosom reason holds her state With daring aims irregularly great ; Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by...
Page 11 - Give you a reason on compulsion ! if reasons were as plenty as blackberries, I would give no man a reason upon compulsion, I. P.
Page 28 - twas time to counterfeit, or that hot termagant Scot had paid me scot and lot too. Counterfeit ? I lie, I am no counterfeit: to die, is to be a counterfeit; for he is but the counterfeit of a man who hath not the life of a man: but to counterfeit dying, when a man thereby liveth, is to be no counterfeit, but the true and perfecT: image of life indeed. The better part of valour is discretion; in the which better part I have saved my life.
Page 243 - The reverend champion stood. At his control Despair and anguish fled the struggling soul ; Comfort came down the trembling wretch to raise, And his last faltering accents whispered praise.
Page 242 - Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease, Seats of my youth, when every sport could please, How often have I loitered o'er thy green, Where humble happiness endeared each scene!
Page 143 - We wither from our youth, we gasp away — Sick — sick; unfound the boon — unslaked the thirst, Though to the last, in verge of our decay, Some phantom lures, such as we sought at first — But all too late, — so are we doubly curst. Love, fame, ambition, avarice — 'tis the same, Each idle — and all ill — and none the worst — For all are meteors with a different name, And Death the sable smoke where vanishes the flame.
Page 231 - I have been a good deal abused in the news-papers for betraying the liberties of the people. God knows I had no thought for or against liberty in my head ; my whole aim being to make up a book of a decent size, that, as "Squire Richard says, would do no harm to nobody.
Page 231 - I could say nothing but that I had a brother there, a clergyman, that stood in need of help: as for myself, I have no dependence on the promises of great men: I look to the booksellers for support; they are my best friends, and I am not inclined to forsake them for others.
Page 29 - Wednesday. Doth he feel it? no. Doth he hear it? no. 'Tis insensible, then? Yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the living? no. Why? detraction will not suffer it. Therefore I'll none of • it. Honour is a mere scutcheon : and so ends my catechism.