Lectures on the English Comic WritersWiley and Putnam, 1845 - 222 páginas |
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... sense and serious concern at defiance . To understand or define the ludicrous , we must first know what the serious is . Now the serious is the habitual stress which the mind lays upon the expectation of a given order of events ...
... sense and serious concern at defiance . To understand or define the ludicrous , we must first know what the serious is . Now the serious is the habitual stress which the mind lays upon the expectation of a given order of events ...
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... sense of the impropriety , adds a severity to it inconsistent with perfect ease and enjoyment . This last species is properly the province of satire . The princi- ple of contrast is , however , the same in all the stages , in the simply ...
... sense of the impropriety , adds a severity to it inconsistent with perfect ease and enjoyment . This last species is properly the province of satire . The princi- ple of contrast is , however , the same in all the stages , in the simply ...
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... sense of absurdity . It makes it come the fuller home upon us from his insensibility to it . His simplicity sets off the satire , and gives it a finer edge . It is a more extreme case still where the person is aware of being the object ...
... sense of absurdity . It makes it come the fuller home upon us from his insensibility to it . His simplicity sets off the satire , and gives it a finer edge . It is a more extreme case still where the person is aware of being the object ...
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... sense should be consistent , is not wonderful : but that caprice , and whim , and fantastical prejudice , should be uniform and infallible in their results , is the surprising thing . But while this characteristic clue to absurdity ...
... sense should be consistent , is not wonderful : but that caprice , and whim , and fantastical prejudice , should be uniform and infallible in their results , is the surprising thing . But while this characteristic clue to absurdity ...
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... sense of that absurdity by some sudden and unexpected likeness or op- -position of one thing to another , which sets off the quality we laugh at or despise in a still more contemptible or striking point of view . Wit , as distinguished ...
... sense of that absurdity by some sudden and unexpected likeness or op- -position of one thing to another , which sets off the quality we laugh at or despise in a still more contemptible or striking point of view . Wit , as distinguished ...
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