Lectures on the English Comic WritersWiley and Putnam, 1845 - 222 oldal |
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2. oldal
... head or some frightful caricature behind the first mask , the suddenness of the change will not in this case be a source of merriment to it , but will con- vert its surprise into an agony of consternation , and will make it scream out ...
... head or some frightful caricature behind the first mask , the suddenness of the change will not in this case be a source of merriment to it , but will con- vert its surprise into an agony of consternation , and will make it scream out ...
11. oldal
... head for want of saying who he was , because he would not forfeit his character of being " justly called the Silent , " is a consummation of the jest , though , if it had really taken place , it would have been carrying the joke too far ...
... head for want of saying who he was , because he would not forfeit his character of being " justly called the Silent , " is a consummation of the jest , though , if it had really taken place , it would have been carrying the joke too far ...
20. oldal
... head of a certain sort of verbal wit ; or , by pointing the expression , sometimes points the sense . Mr. Grattan's wit or eloquence ( I don't know by what name to call it ) would be nothing without this accompaniment . Speaking of some ...
... head of a certain sort of verbal wit ; or , by pointing the expression , sometimes points the sense . Mr. Grattan's wit or eloquence ( I don't know by what name to call it ) would be nothing without this accompaniment . Speaking of some ...
21. oldal
... head , " was the answer . Now here instantaneous ad- vantage was taken of the slight technical ambiguity in the con- struction of language , and the matter - of - fact is flung into the scale as a thumping makeweight . After all ...
... head , " was the answer . Now here instantaneous ad- vantage was taken of the slight technical ambiguity in the con- struction of language , and the matter - of - fact is flung into the scale as a thumping makeweight . After all ...
24. oldal
... head bit off by its young , " and " Whoop jug , I know when the horse follows the cart , " are a running commentary of trite truisms , pointing out the extreme folly of the infatuated old monarch , and in a manner reconciling 24 ...
... head bit off by its young , " and " Whoop jug , I know when the horse follows the cart , " are a running commentary of trite truisms , pointing out the extreme folly of the infatuated old monarch , and in a manner reconciling 24 ...
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