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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... force people to laugh : you cannot give a reason why they should laugh : they must laugh of themselves , or not at all . As we laugh from a spontaneous impulse , we laugh the more at any restraint upon this impulse . We laugh at a thing ...
... force people to laugh : you cannot give a reason why they should laugh : they must laugh of themselves , or not at all . As we laugh from a spontaneous impulse , we laugh the more at any restraint upon this impulse . We laugh at a thing ...
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... force , and breaks out the more violently in peals of laughter . In like manner , any thing we must not think of makes us laugh , by its coming upon us by stealth and unawares , and from the very efforts we make to exclude it . A secret ...
... force , and breaks out the more violently in peals of laughter . In like manner , any thing we must not think of makes us laugh , by its coming upon us by stealth and unawares , and from the very efforts we make to exclude it . A secret ...
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... force and forceless1 care , As if that luck , in very spite of cunning , Bade him win all . ' There are people who cannot taste olives - and I cannot much relish Ben Jonson , though I have taken some pains to do it , and went to the ...
... force and forceless1 care , As if that luck , in very spite of cunning , Bade him win all . ' There are people who cannot taste olives - and I cannot much relish Ben Jonson , though I have taken some pains to do it , and went to the ...
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... force on the stage . Bobadil is the only actually striking character in the play , and the real hero of the piece . His well - known proposal for the pacification of Europe , by killing some twenty of them , each his man a day , is as ...
... force on the stage . Bobadil is the only actually striking character in the play , and the real hero of the piece . His well - known proposal for the pacification of Europe , by killing some twenty of them , each his man a day , is as ...
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... force in detecting and exposing the aberrations from the broad and beaten path of propriety and common sense , he would have amply deserved the reputation he has acquired as a philosophical critic . The writers here referred to ( such ...
... force in detecting and exposing the aberrations from the broad and beaten path of propriety and common sense , he would have amply deserved the reputation he has acquired as a philosophical critic . The writers here referred to ( such ...
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Page 512 - Shakspeare, that, take him for all in all, we shall not look upon his like again.
Page 210 - O, here Will I set up my everlasting rest And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars From this world-wearied flesh.
Page 207 - 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.
Page 55 - 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?
Page 450 - 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.
Page 449 - 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...
Page 471 - Man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority, Plays such fantastic tricks before high Heaven As make the angels weep.
Page 276 - All schooldays' 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, voices, and minds Had been incorporate. So we grew together Like to a double cherry, seeming parted But yet an union in partition...
Page 19 - 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...
Page 16 - The sun had long since, in the lap Of Thetis, taken out his nap, And, like a lobster boil'd, the morn From black to red began to turn...