The Complete Works of William Hazlitt, Volume 6J. M. Dent and Sons, Limited, 1931 |
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... sentiment , which still survives in all its fluttering grace and breathless palpitations on the stage . Humour is the describing the ludicrous as it is in itself ; wit is the exposing it , by comparing or contrasting it with something ...
... sentiment , which still survives in all its fluttering grace and breathless palpitations on the stage . Humour is the describing the ludicrous as it is in itself ; wit is the exposing it , by comparing or contrasting it with something ...
Page 257
... sentiment , and an evident imitation of the parenthetical interruptions and breaks in the line , corresponding to what we sometimes meet in Shakespear , as in the speeches of Leontes in the Winter's Tale ; but the sentiment is over ...
... sentiment , and an evident imitation of the parenthetical interruptions and breaks in the line , corresponding to what we sometimes meet in Shakespear , as in the speeches of Leontes in the Winter's Tale ; but the sentiment is over ...
Page 361
... sentiment . A lady of fashion , wit , and beauty , forfeits the sanctity of her marriage - vow , but preserves the inviolability of her sentiments and character , ' Pure in the last recesses of the mind'— and triumphs over false opinion ...
... sentiment . A lady of fashion , wit , and beauty , forfeits the sanctity of her marriage - vow , but preserves the inviolability of her sentiments and character , ' Pure in the last recesses of the mind'— and triumphs over false opinion ...
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