Lectures on the English Comic WritersWiley and Putnam, 1845 - 222 oldal |
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... means one thing , and another is aiming at something else , are another great source of comic humour , on the same principle of ambi- guity and contrast . There is a high - wrought instance of this in the dialogue be- tween Aimwell and ...
... means one thing , and another is aiming at something else , are another great source of comic humour , on the same principle of ambi- guity and contrast . There is a high - wrought instance of this in the dialogue be- tween Aimwell and ...
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... mean more light and worthless ; or to divert our admiration or wean our affections from that which is lofty and impressive , instead of producing a more intense admiration and exalted passion , as poetry does . Wit may sometimes , in ...
... mean more light and worthless ; or to divert our admiration or wean our affections from that which is lofty and impressive , instead of producing a more intense admiration and exalted passion , as poetry does . Wit may sometimes , in ...
20. oldal
... means of government are the guinea and the gallows . " There can scarcely , it must be confessed , be a more effectual mode of political conversion than one of these applied to a man's friends , and the other to himself . The fine ...
... means of government are the guinea and the gallows . " There can scarcely , it must be confessed , be a more effectual mode of political conversion than one of these applied to a man's friends , and the other to himself . The fine ...
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... means the case . Swift would hardly have allowed of such a strait - laced theory , to make havoc with his darling conundrums ; though there is no one whose serious wit is more that of things , as opposed to a mere play either of words ...
... means the case . Swift would hardly have allowed of such a strait - laced theory , to make havoc with his darling conundrums ; though there is no one whose serious wit is more that of things , as opposed to a mere play either of words ...
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... means of some far - fetched conceit or quaint imagery . The mat- but the form is wit . Thus the lines in Pope— ter is sense , " Tis with our judgments as our watches , none Go just alike ; yet each believes his own- " are witty rather ...
... means of some far - fetched conceit or quaint imagery . The mat- but the form is wit . Thus the lines in Pope— ter is sense , " Tis with our judgments as our watches , none Go just alike ; yet each believes his own- " are witty rather ...
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