Lectures on the English Comic WritersDoubleday, 1960 - 239 oldal |
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... 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 impulse . We laugh at a thing ...
... 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 impulse . We laugh at a thing ...
72. oldal
... force in detecting and exposing the aberrations from the broad and beaten path of propriety and common sense , he would have amply deserved the reputation he has acquired as a philosophical critic . The writers here referred to ( such ...
... force in detecting and exposing the aberrations from the broad and beaten path of propriety and common sense , he would have amply deserved the reputation he has acquired as a philosophical critic . The writers here referred to ( such ...
119. oldal
... force and vivacity . His antitheses are happy and brilliant contrasts of character ; his double entendres equivocal situations ; his best jokes are practical devices , not epigrammatic conceits . His wit is that which is emphatically ...
... force and vivacity . His antitheses are happy and brilliant contrasts of character ; his double entendres equivocal situations ; his best jokes are practical devices , not epigrammatic conceits . His wit is that which is emphatically ...
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