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William Hazlitt. CONTENTS . LECTURE I. Introductory . - On Wit and Humour LECTURE II . On Shakspeare and Ben Jonson 32 LECTURE III . On Cowley , Butler , Suckling , Etherege , & c . LECTURE IV . 55 On Wycherley , Congreve , Vanbrugh ...
William Hazlitt. CONTENTS . LECTURE I. Introductory . - On Wit and Humour LECTURE II . On Shakspeare and Ben Jonson 32 LECTURE III . On Cowley , Butler , Suckling , Etherege , & c . LECTURE IV . 55 On Wycherley , Congreve , Vanbrugh ...
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... Humour . MAN is the only animal that laughs and weeps ; for he is the ..only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are , and what they ought to be . We weep at what thwarts or exceeds our desires in serious ...
... Humour . MAN is the only animal that laughs and weeps ; for he is the ..only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are , and what they ought to be . We weep at what thwarts or exceeds our desires in serious ...
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... change is not only sudden , but threatens serious consequences , or calls up the shape of danger , terror supersedes our disposition to mirth , and laughter gives place to tears . It is usual to play with 2 [ LECTURE I. ON WIT AND HUMOUR .
... change is not only sudden , but threatens serious consequences , or calls up the shape of danger , terror supersedes our disposition to mirth , and laughter gives place to tears . It is usual to play with 2 [ LECTURE I. ON WIT AND HUMOUR .
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... of others as to its situation . A person concealed from assassins , is in no danger of betraying his situation by laughing . tutes physical laughter . The discontinuous in our sensations produces LECTURE 1. ] 3 ON WIT AND HUMOUR .
... of others as to its situation . A person concealed from assassins , is in no danger of betraying his situation by laughing . tutes physical laughter . The discontinuous in our sensations produces LECTURE 1. ] 3 ON WIT AND HUMOUR .
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... actions . Of these different kinds or degrees of the laughable , the first is the most shallow and short - lived ; for the instant the imme- diate surprise of a thing's merely happening one way or 4 [ LECTURE 1 . ON WIT AND HUMOUR .
... actions . Of these different kinds or degrees of the laughable , the first is the most shallow and short - lived ; for the instant the imme- diate surprise of a thing's merely happening one way or 4 [ LECTURE 1 . ON WIT AND HUMOUR .
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