Lectures on the English Comic WritersWiley and Putnam, 1845 - 222 páginas |
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... the mill , got nothing for his pains - of another who fell in love with a fine lady , who pretended to return his passion , and inviting him to her house , as the preliminary condition of her favour 10 [ LECTURE I. ON WIT AND HUMOUR .
... the mill , got nothing for his pains - of another who fell in love with a fine lady , who pretended to return his passion , and inviting him to her house , as the preliminary condition of her favour 10 [ LECTURE I. ON WIT AND HUMOUR .
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... and exalted passion , as poetry does . Wit may sometimes , in- deed , be shown in compliments as well as satire ; as in the com- mon epigram- " 6 ' Accept a miracle , instead of wit LECTURE 1. ] 13 ON WIT AND HUMOUR .
... and exalted passion , as poetry does . Wit may sometimes , in- deed , be shown in compliments as well as satire ; as in the com- mon epigram- " 6 ' Accept a miracle , instead of wit LECTURE 1. ] 13 ON WIT AND HUMOUR .
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... passion , it must do it so as to lower the tone of intense and high- wrought sentiment by the introduction of burlesque and familiar circumstances . To give an instance or two . Butler , in his ' Hudibras , ' compares the change of ...
... passion , it must do it so as to lower the tone of intense and high- wrought sentiment by the introduction of burlesque and familiar circumstances . To give an instance or two . Butler , in his ' Hudibras , ' compares the change of ...
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... passions , that love and dislike some one thing , some another , and therefore some men's thoughts run one way , some another , and are held to and observe differently the things that pass through their imagina- tion . And whereas in ...
... passions , that love and dislike some one thing , some another , and therefore some men's thoughts run one way , some another , and are held to and observe differently the things that pass through their imagina- tion . And whereas in ...
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... they do occur , they are uniformly blemishes . It requires something more solid and substantial to raise admiration or passion . The general forms and aggregate masses of our ideas must be brought more 22 [ LECTURE I .. ON WIT AND HUMOUR .
... they do occur , they are uniformly blemishes . It requires something more solid and substantial to raise admiration or passion . The general forms and aggregate masses of our ideas must be brought more 22 [ LECTURE I .. ON WIT AND HUMOUR .
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