Lectures on the English Comic WritersDoubleday, 1960 - 239 oldal |
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12. oldal
... absurdity of character or situation . The accidental contradiction between our expectations and the event can hardly be said , however , to amount to the ludi- crous : it is merely laughable . The ludicrous is where there is the same ...
... absurdity of character or situation . The accidental contradiction between our expectations and the event can hardly be said , however , to amount to the ludi- crous : it is merely laughable . The ludicrous is where there is the same ...
13. oldal
... absurdity as well as improbability , that is , where the defect or weakness is of a man's own seeking , is the most refined of all , but not always so pleasant as the last , because the same contempt and disapprobation which sharpens ...
... absurdity as well as improbability , that is , where the defect or weakness is of a man's own seeking , is the most refined of all , but not always so pleasant as the last , because the same contempt and disapprobation which sharpens ...
17. oldal
... absurdity helps on the ridicule , it also softens and harmonises its excesses ; and the ludicrous is here blended with a certain beauty and decorum , from this very truth of habit and sentiment , or from the principle of similitude in ...
... absurdity helps on the ridicule , it also softens and harmonises its excesses ; and the ludicrous is here blended with a certain beauty and decorum , from this very truth of habit and sentiment , or from the principle of similitude in ...
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absurdity acter admirable affectation amusing appear archy and mehitabel beauty Ben Jonson BRASS character Charlotte Brontë colour comedy common Congreve delightful DICK Dolphin Masters Don Quixote dramatic dress elegance Epicene equally excellent extravagance eyes face fancy farce feeling folly Francis Turner Palgrave genius Gil Blas give grace heart Hogarth Honoré de Balzac Hudibras idea imagination imitation instance interest invention Johnson Lady laugh lively look Lord lover ludicrous Madam manners mind mistress moral never night novel object original painted passion person play pleasure poem poet poetry pretensions Rake's Progress reason refinement Richard Brinsley Sheridan ridiculous romantic satire scene School for Scandal seems sense sentiment serious Shakspeare shew sort Spectator spirit stage story style Tartuffe Tatler thee thing thou thought tion Tom Jones truth turn vice whole wife WILD words Wycherley