Lectures on the English Comic WritersWiley and Putnam, 1845 - 222 oldal |
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... person it is particu- larly fond of , and does not find that person there , its countenance suddenly falls , its lips begin to quiver , its cheek turns pale , its eye glistens , and it vents its little sorrow ( grown too big to be ...
... person it is particu- larly fond of , and does not find that person there , its countenance suddenly falls , its lips begin to quiver , its cheek turns pale , its eye glistens , and it vents its little sorrow ( grown too big to be ...
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... person because they never saw him before . Any one dressed in the height of the fashion , or quite out of it , is equally an object of ridicule . One rich source of the ludicrous is distress with which we cannot sympathise from its ...
... person because they never saw him before . Any one dressed in the height of the fashion , or quite out of it , is equally an object of ridicule . One rich source of the ludicrous is distress with which we cannot sympathise from its ...
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... person 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 ...
... person 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 ...
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... person himself of what he is about , or of what others think of him , is also a great heightener of the sense of absurdity . It makes it come the fuller home upon us from his insensibility to it . His simplicity sets off the satire ...
... person himself of what he is about , or of what others think of him , is also a great heightener of the sense of absurdity . It makes it come the fuller home upon us from his insensibility to it . His simplicity sets off the satire ...
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... person happening to come up , and observing how saucy the fellow was , said to the gentleman , " Sir , if you will lend me your cane for a moment , I'll give him a good threshing for his impertinence . " The old gentleman , smiling at ...
... person happening to come up , and observing how saucy the fellow was , said to the gentleman , " Sir , if you will lend me your cane for a moment , I'll give him a good threshing for his impertinence . " The old gentleman , smiling at ...
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