Lectures on the English Comic WritersWiley and Putnam, 1845 - 222 páginas |
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... character strengthens the sense of the ludi- crous . Keeping in comic character is consistency in absurdity ; a determined and laudable attachment to the incongruous and singular . The regularity completes the contradiction ; for the ...
... character strengthens the sense of the ludi- crous . Keeping in comic character is consistency in absurdity ; a determined and laudable attachment to the incongruous and singular . The regularity completes the contradiction ; for the ...
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... character as a professed wit : the one is always contriving something to laugh at , the other is always laughing at nothing . An excess of levity is as impertinent as an excess of gravity . A character of this sort is well personified ...
... character as a professed wit : the one is always contriving something to laugh at , the other is always laughing at nothing . An excess of levity is as impertinent as an excess of gravity . A character of this sort is well personified ...
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... character , or common probability . The plots of several of them could not be carried on for a moment without a perfect collusion between the parties to wink at contradictions , and act in defiance of the evi- dence of their senses ...
... character , or common probability . The plots of several of them could not be carried on for a moment without a perfect collusion between the parties to wink at contradictions , and act in defiance of the evi- dence of their senses ...
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... characters , again , which Celimene gives of her female friends , near the opening of the play , are admirable satires ... character of Orgon is wonderful . This play is in one point of view invaluable , as a lasting monu- ment of the ...
... characters , again , which Celimene gives of her female friends , near the opening of the play , are admirable satires ... character of Orgon is wonderful . This play is in one point of view invaluable , as a lasting monu- ment of the ...
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... characters , the Timon of Athens or honest Iago , when we shall more than suc- ceed . He put his strength into his tragedies , and played with comedy . He was greatest in what was greatest ; and his forte was not trifling , according to ...
... characters , the Timon of Athens or honest Iago , when we shall more than suc- ceed . He put his strength into his tragedies , and played with comedy . He was greatest in what was greatest ; and his forte was not trifling , according to ...
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