Lectures on the English Comic WritersWiley and Putnam, 1845 - 222 oldal |
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... circumstances , and the absurdity or unaccountableness of a foolish action is the most striking thing in it , the ludicrous prevails over the pathetic , and we receive pleasure instead of pain from the farce of life which is played ...
... circumstances , and the absurdity or unaccountableness of a foolish action is the most striking thing in it , the ludicrous prevails over the pathetic , and we receive pleasure instead of pain from the farce of life which is played ...
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... circumstance that interferes with the solemnity of the proceedings throws the whole place into an uproar of laugh- ter . People at the point of death often say smart things . Sir Thomas More jested with his executioner : Rabelais and ...
... circumstance that interferes with the solemnity of the proceedings throws the whole place into an uproar of laugh- ter . People at the point of death often say smart things . Sir Thomas More jested with his executioner : Rabelais and ...
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... circumstances . To give an instance or two . Butler , in his ' Hudibras , ' compares the change of night into day to the change of colour in a boiled lobster . " The sun had long since , in the lap Of Thetis , taken out his nap ; And ...
... circumstances . To give an instance or two . Butler , in his ' Hudibras , ' compares the change of night into day to the change of colour in a boiled lobster . " The sun had long since , in the lap Of Thetis , taken out his nap ; And ...
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... circumstances are shown through an atmos- phere of abstraction that dignifies them ; their very insignifi- cance makes them more affecting , for they instantly put a check on our aspiring thoughts , and remind us that , seen through ...
... circumstances are shown through an atmos- phere of abstraction that dignifies them ; their very insignifi- cance makes them more affecting , for they instantly put a check on our aspiring thoughts , and remind us that , seen through ...
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... circumstances , so it requires actual observation , and an acquaintance with the modes of arti- ficial life , to describe it with the utmost possible grace and pre- cision . Congreve , who had every other opportunity , was but a young ...
... circumstances , so it requires actual observation , and an acquaintance with the modes of arti- ficial life , to describe it with the utmost possible grace and pre- cision . Congreve , who had every other opportunity , was but a young ...
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