Lectures on the English Comic WritersWiley and Putnam, 1845 - 222 páginas |
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... turning them abruptly into another chan- nel , seems to give additional liveliness and gaiety to the animal spirits ; but the instant the change is not only sudden , but threatens serious consequences , or calls up the shape of danger ...
... turning them abruptly into another chan- nel , seems to give additional liveliness and gaiety to the animal spirits ; but the instant the change is not only sudden , but threatens serious consequences , or calls up the shape of danger ...
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... turns pale , its eye glistens , and it vents its little sorrow ( grown too big to be concealed ) in a flood of tears . Again , if the child meets the same person unexpectedly after a long absence , the same effect will be produced by an ...
... turns pale , its eye glistens , and it vents its little sorrow ( grown too big to be concealed ) in a flood of tears . Again , if the child meets the same person unexpectedly after a long absence , the same effect will be produced by an ...
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... turn with an incredulous smile from a story that staggers our belief : and we are ready to split our sides with laughing at an extravagance that sets all common sense and serious concern at defiance . To understand or define the ...
... turn with an incredulous smile from a story that staggers our belief : and we are ready to split our sides with laughing at an extravagance that sets all common sense and serious concern at defiance . To understand or define the ...
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... turns our heedless mirth into gravity , which only enhances the jest to others . Some one is generally sure to be the sufferer by a joke . What is sport to one is death to another . It is only very sensi- ble or very honest people who ...
... turns our heedless mirth into gravity , which only enhances the jest to others . Some one is generally sure to be the sufferer by a joke . What is sport to one is death to another . It is only very sensi- ble or very honest people who ...
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... turn or two , stumbled on a trap- door , and fell plump into the street , to the great astonishment of the spectators and his own , shorn of his eyebrows , naked , and without a ray of hope left : -that of the castle - building pedler ...
... turn or two , stumbled on a trap- door , and fell plump into the street , to the great astonishment of the spectators and his own , shorn of his eyebrows , naked , and without a ray of hope left : -that of the castle - building pedler ...
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