Lectures on the English Comic WritersWiley and Putnam, 1845 - 222 oldal |
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... reason , or is a voluntary depar- ture from what we have a right to expect from those who are conscious of absurdity and propriety in words , looks , and actions . Of these different kinds or degrees of the laughable , the first is the ...
... reason , or is a voluntary depar- ture from what we have a right to expect from those who are conscious of absurdity and propriety in words , looks , and actions . Of these different kinds or degrees of the laughable , the first is the ...
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William Hazlitt. You cannot force people to laugh , you cannot give a reason why they should laugh ; —they must laugh of themselves , or not at all . As we laugh from a spontaneous impulse , we laugh the more at any restraint upon this ...
William Hazlitt. You cannot force people to laugh , you cannot give a reason why they should laugh ; —they must laugh of themselves , or not at all . As we laugh from a spontaneous impulse , we laugh the more at any restraint upon this ...
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... reason and good sense should be consistent , is not wonderful : but that caprice , and whim , and fantastical prejudice , should be uniform and infallible in their results , is the surprising thing . But while this characteristic clue ...
... reason and good sense should be consistent , is not wonderful : but that caprice , and whim , and fantastical prejudice , should be uniform and infallible in their results , is the surprising thing . But while this characteristic clue ...
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... reason , according to him , lie the clean contrary way , in separat- ing and nicely distinguishing those wherein the smallest differ- ence is to be found . * * His words are- " If in having our ideas in the memory ready at hand consists ...
... reason , according to him , lie the clean contrary way , in separat- ing and nicely distinguishing those wherein the smallest differ- ence is to be found . * * His words are- " If in having our ideas in the memory ready at hand consists ...
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... reason and judgment , as well as of wit and least difference , consists in a great measure the exactness of judgment and clearness of reason , which is to be observed in one man above another . And hence , perhaps , may be given some reason ...
... reason and judgment , as well as of wit and least difference , consists in a great measure the exactness of judgment and clearness of reason , which is to be observed in one man above another . And hence , perhaps , may be given some reason ...
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