Lectures on the English Comic WritersWiley and Putnam, 1845 - 222 oldal |
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5. oldal
... principle operates . To give some examples in these different kinds . We laugh , when children , at the sudden removing of a paste - board mask : we laugh , when grown up , more gravely at the tearing off the mask of deceit . We laugh ...
... principle operates . To give some examples in these different kinds . We laugh , when children , at the sudden removing of a paste - board mask : we laugh , when grown up , more gravely at the tearing off the mask of deceit . We laugh ...
7. oldal
... principle of ambi- guity and contrast . There is a high - wrought instance of this in the dialogue be- tween Aimwell and Gibbet , in the ' Beaux ' Stratagem , ' where Aimwell mistakes his companion for an officer in a marching regiment ...
... principle of ambi- guity and contrast . There is a high - wrought instance of this in the dialogue be- tween Aimwell and Gibbet , in the ' Beaux ' Stratagem , ' where Aimwell mistakes his companion for an officer in a marching regiment ...
8. oldal
... principle . In such cases it is the contrast between the appearance and the reality , the suspense of belief , and the seeming incongruity , that gives point to the ridicule , and makes it enter the deeper when the first impression is ...
... principle . In such cases it is the contrast between the appearance and the reality , the suspense of belief , and the seeming incongruity , that gives point to the ridicule , and makes it enter the deeper when the first impression is ...
9. oldal
... principle of similitude and dissimilitude . The devotion to nonsense , and enthusiasm about trifles , is highly affecting as a moral lesson : it is one of the striking weaknesses and greatest happinesses of our nature . That which ...
... principle of similitude and dissimilitude . The devotion to nonsense , and enthusiasm about trifles , is highly affecting as a moral lesson : it is one of the striking weaknesses and greatest happinesses of our nature . That which ...
11. oldal
... principle of callous indifference in a jest as far as it can go . The serious and mar- vellous stories in that work , which have been so much admired and so greedily read , appear to me monstrous and abortive fic- tions , like ...
... principle of callous indifference in a jest as far as it can go . The serious and mar- vellous stories in that work , which have been so much admired and so greedily read , appear to me monstrous and abortive fic- tions , like ...
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