Lectures on the English Comic WritersWiley and Putnam, 1845 - 222 páginas |
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... , which more than counterbalances the speculative entertainment we might receive from the con- templation of our abstract situation . • You cannot force people to laugh , you cannot give 6 [ LECTURE I. ON WIT AND HUMOUR .
... , which more than counterbalances the speculative entertainment we might receive from the con- templation of our abstract situation . • You cannot force people to laugh , you cannot give 6 [ LECTURE I. ON WIT AND HUMOUR .
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... force , and breaks out the more violently in peals of laughter . In like manner anything 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 anything 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 to the same principle . In such cases it is the contrast between the appearance and the reality , the suspense of belief , and the seeming incongruity , that gives point to the ridicule , and makes it enter the deeper when the ...
... force to the same principle . In such cases it is the contrast between the appearance and the reality , the suspense of belief , and the seeming incongruity , that gives point to the ridicule , and makes it enter the deeper when the ...
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... , With such a careless force and forceless * care , As if that luck , in very spite of cunning , Bad him win all . " * Unforced . There are people who cannot taste olives — and I 42 ON SHAKSPEARE AND BEN JONSON . [ LECTURE II .
... , With such a careless force and forceless * care , As if that luck , in very spite of cunning , Bad him win all . " * Unforced . There are people who cannot taste olives — and I 42 ON SHAKSPEARE AND BEN JONSON . [ LECTURE II .
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... force on the stage . Bobadil is the only actually striking character in the play , or which tells equally in the closet and the theatre ; he is the real hero of the piece . His well - known proposal for the pacification of Europe by ...
... force on the stage . Bobadil is the only actually striking character in the play , or which tells equally in the closet and the theatre ; he is the real hero of the piece . His well - known proposal for the pacification of Europe by ...
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