Lectures on the English Comic WritersWiley and Putnam, 1845 - 222 páginas |
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... stages , in the simply laughable , the ludicrous , the ridiculous ; and the effect is only the more complete , the more durably and pointedly this principle operates . To give some examples in these different kinds . We laugh , when ...
... stages , in the simply laughable , the ludicrous , the ridiculous ; and the effect is only the more complete , the more durably and pointedly this principle operates . To give some examples in these different kinds . We laugh , when ...
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... stage - coach , or in it , if they seem in great extremity . It is hard to hinder children from laughing at a stammerer , at a negro , at a drunken man , or even at a mad- man . We laugh at mischief . We laugh at what we do not believe ...
... stage - coach , or in it , if they seem in great extremity . It is hard to hinder children from laughing at a stammerer , at a negro , at a drunken man , or even at a mad- man . We laugh at mischief . We laugh at what we do not believe ...
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... stage . Humour is the describing the ludicrous as it is in itself ; wit is the exposing it , by comparing or contrasting it with something else . Humour is , as it were , the growth of nature and acci- dent ; wit is the product of art ...
... stage . Humour is the describing the ludicrous as it is in itself ; wit is the exposing it , by comparing or contrasting it with something else . Humour is , as it were , the growth of nature and acci- dent ; wit is the product of art ...
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... stage , nor indeed on the French , but that they are carried off by the verse . The Critique de l'Ecole des Femmes , ' the dialogue of which is prose , is written in a very different style . Among other things , this little piece ...
... stage , nor indeed on the French , but that they are carried off by the verse . The Critique de l'Ecole des Femmes , ' the dialogue of which is prose , is written in a very different style . Among other things , this little piece ...
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... 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 killing some ...
... 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 killing some ...
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