Lectures on the English Comic WritersWiley and Putnam, 1845 - 222 oldal |
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... object also striking upon the mind more vividly in its loose unsettled state , and be- fore it has had time to recover and collect itself , causes that alternate excitement and relaxation , or irregular convulsive movement of the ...
... object also striking upon the mind more vividly in its loose unsettled state , and be- fore it has had time to recover and collect itself , causes that alternate excitement and relaxation , or irregular convulsive movement of the ...
5. oldal
... object of ridicule . One rich source of the ludicrous is distress with which we cannot sympathise from its absurdity or insignificance . Women laugh at their lovers . We laugh at a damned author , in spite of our We teeth , and though ...
... object of ridicule . One rich source of the ludicrous is distress with which we cannot sympathise from its absurdity or insignificance . Women laugh at their lovers . We laugh at a damned author , in spite of our We teeth , and though ...
13. oldal
... objects , as to make the little look less , the 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 ...
... objects , as to make the little look less , the 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 ...
14. oldal
... objects which affect us more from surprise or contrast to the train of our ordinary and literal preconceptions , than from anything in the objects them- selves exciting our necessary sympathy or lasting hatred . The favourite employment ...
... objects which affect us more from surprise or contrast to the train of our ordinary and literal preconceptions , than from anything in the objects them- selves exciting our necessary sympathy or lasting hatred . The favourite employment ...
21. oldal
... objects . " Do you see any thing ridiculous in this wig ? " said one of his brother judges to him . " Nothing but the head , " was the answer . Now here instantaneous ad- vantage was taken of the slight technical ambiguity in the con ...
... objects . " Do you see any thing ridiculous in this wig ? " said one of his brother judges to him . " Nothing but the head , " was the answer . Now here instantaneous ad- vantage was taken of the slight technical ambiguity in the con ...
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