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An interesting contrast may be made between a comic passage of the "Arcadia," representing a fight between two cowards, and perhaps the only scene in the "Morte d'Arthur" of humorous intent, that in which King Mark is ignominiously put to flight by Arthur's court fool disguised in the armor of a knight.
For our own part, we must confess; we entertain all possible veneration for parliamentary and ministerial abilities; we should be mortified to rank second to any man in our enthusiasm for the official talents of Mr. Sheridan: But as the guardians of literature, we regretted the loss of his comic powers. We wished to preserve the poet, without losing the statesman.
And with both hands he combed his whiskers in a despair that was comic and yet pitiful. He was standing there, still combing, as we came away. Louvain the Forsaken It was Sunday when I saw Louvain in the ashes of her desolation.
What a good figure Stell would have made in a play: the great alienist who couldn't read a man's mind any better than that! Granice saw huge comic opportunities in the type. But as he walked away, his fears dispelled, the sense of listlessness returned on him.
And here is the third fact to which attention should be drawn. You would hardly appreciate the comic if you felt yourself isolated from others.
Then the conversation branched into a description of the Wednesday night festivities in Temple Gardens the shouting and cheering of the lords, the comic vocalists, the inimitable Arthur, the extraordinary Bessie. He told, with fits of laughter, of Muchross's stump speeches, and how he had once got on the supper-table and sat down in the very centre, regardless of plates and dishes.
He led the way below, calling for the orchestra as he went. The frightened crowd turned and followed as if in this one man who spoke with the voice of authority protection could be found. But they hung back from dancing, and after a pause the first-officer seized a banjo and proceeded to entertain them with comic songs. He kept it up for a while, and then Mrs.
Benedict and Beatrice, Dogberry, and the rest, are subjects of a special study in the poetically comic. His Comedy of incredible imbroglio belongs to the literary section. One may conceive that there was a natural resemblance between him and Menander, both in the scheme and style of his lighter plays.
The Irishman's shillelagh was for years a conspicuous feature of the comic press. And there will instantly come to every one's mind that immortal passage in "Tristram Shandy." 'Twas infinitely striking! Susannah burst into a flood of tears." Canes are not absent from poetry. Into your ears already has come the refrain of "The Last Leaf": "And totters o'er the ground, With his cane."
The worst thing of all was the lamp-post, bent, moveless, unnatural, atrociously comic, accusing him. The affair was over the town in a minute; the next morning it reached Llandudno.
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