Lectures on the English Comic WritersWiley and Putnam, 1845 - 222 páginas |
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... tion , before it has had time to reconcile its feelings to the change of circumstances : while laughter may be defined to be the same sort of convulsive and involuntary movement , occasioned by mere surprise or contrast ( in the absence ...
... tion , before it has had time to reconcile its feelings to the change of circumstances : while laughter may be defined to be the same sort of convulsive and involuntary movement , occasioned by mere surprise or contrast ( in the absence ...
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... tion of ludicrous weakness in character , nothing is superior to the comic parts of the ' Arabian Nights ' Entertainments . ' To take only the set of stories of the Little Hunchback , who was choked with a bone , and the Barber of ...
... tion of ludicrous weakness in character , nothing is superior to the comic parts of the ' Arabian Nights ' Entertainments . ' To take only the set of stories of the Little Hunchback , who was choked with a bone , and the Barber of ...
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... tion of casual pain , but the pursuit of uncertain pleasure and idle gallantry . Half the business and gaiety of comedy turns upon this . Most of the adventures , difficulties , demurs , hair - breadth ' scapes , disguises , deceptions ...
... tion of casual pain , but the pursuit of uncertain pleasure and idle gallantry . Half the business and gaiety of comedy turns upon this . Most of the adventures , difficulties , demurs , hair - breadth ' scapes , disguises , deceptions ...
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... tion , that men who have a great deal of wit and prompt memories , have not always the clearest judgment or deepest reason . For wit lying mostly in the assemblage of ideas , and putting them together with quickness and va- riety ...
... tion , that men who have a great deal of wit and prompt memories , have not always the clearest judgment or deepest reason . For wit lying mostly in the assemblage of ideas , and putting them together with quickness and va- riety ...
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... tion of it , so that if the thing when once hinted is not clear in itself , the satire fails of its effect and falls to the ground . The sarcasm here glanced at the character of the new or old French noblesse may not be well - founded ...
... tion of it , so that if the thing when once hinted is not clear in itself , the satire fails of its effect and falls to the ground . The sarcasm here glanced at the character of the new or old French noblesse may not be well - founded ...
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