Lectures on the English Comic WritersWiley and Putnam, 1845 - 222 oldal |
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... sort of convulsive and involuntary movement , occasioned by mere surprise or contrast ( in the absence of any more serious emotion , ) before it has time to reconcile its belief to contradicto- ry appearances . If we hold a mask before ...
... sort of convulsive and involuntary movement , occasioned by mere surprise or contrast ( in the absence of any more serious emotion , ) before it has time to reconcile its belief to contradicto- ry appearances . If we hold a mask before ...
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... sort , that is , the ludicrous arising out of the improbable or distressing , is more deep and lasting , either because the pain- ful catastrophe excites a greater curiosity , or because the old impression , from its habitual hold on ...
... sort , that is , the ludicrous arising out of the improbable or distressing , is more deep and lasting , either because the pain- ful catastrophe excites a greater curiosity , or because the old impression , from its habitual hold on ...
10. oldal
... sort had happened to him , the idea of his late disaster and present self - complacency struck him so powerfully , that , unable to resist the impulse , he flung himself back in the pulpit , and laughed till he could laugh no longer . I ...
... sort had happened to him , the idea of his late disaster and present self - complacency struck him so powerfully , that , unable to resist the impulse , he flung himself back in the pulpit , and laughed till he could laugh no longer . I ...
11. oldal
... sort in the Thousand and One Nights , which are an inexhaustible mine of comic humour and invention , and which , from the manners of the East which they describe , carry the principle of callous indifference in a jest as far as it can ...
... sort in the Thousand and One Nights , which are an inexhaustible mine of comic humour and invention , and which , from the manners of the East which they describe , carry the principle of callous indifference in a jest as far as it can ...
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... sort of forbidden ground to the imagination , except under severe restric- tions , which are constantly broken through ; all the resources it supplies for intrigue and invention ; the bashfulness of the clownish lover , his looks of ...
... sort of forbidden ground to the imagination , except under severe restric- tions , which are constantly broken through ; all the resources it supplies for intrigue and invention ; the bashfulness of the clownish lover , his looks of ...
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