Lectures on the English Comic WritersDoubleday, 1960 - 239 oldal |
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13. oldal
... laugh , when children , at the sudden removing of a pasteboard mask : we laugh , when grown up , more gravely at the tearing off the mask of deceit . We laugh at absurdity ; we laugh at deformity . We laugh at a bottle - nose in a ...
... laugh , when children , at the sudden removing of a pasteboard mask : we laugh , when grown up , more gravely at the tearing off the mask of deceit . We laugh at absurdity ; we laugh at deformity . We laugh at a bottle - nose in a ...
14. oldal
... laughing at a stammerer , at a negro , at a drunken man , or even at a madman . We laugh at mischief . We laugh at what we do not believe . We say that an argument or an assertion that is very absurd , is quite ludicrous . We laugh to ...
... laughing at a stammerer , at a negro , at a drunken man , or even at a madman . We laugh at mischief . We laugh at what we do not believe . We say that an argument or an assertion that is very absurd , is quite ludicrous . We laugh to ...
15. oldal
... 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 merely because ...
... 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 merely because ...
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