Lectures on the English Comic WritersDoubleday, 1960 - 239 oldal |
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12. oldal
... sense and serious concern at defiance . To understand or define the ludicrous , we must first know what the serious is . Now the serious is the habitual stress which the mind lays upon the expectation of a given order of events ...
... sense and serious concern at defiance . To understand or define the ludicrous , we must first know what the serious is . Now the serious is the habitual stress which the mind lays upon the expectation of a given order of events ...
29. oldal
... sense , for though he said nothing , he laughed in the right place . " — Alliteration comes in here under the head of a certain sort of verbal wit ; or , by pointing the expression , sometimes points the sense . Mr. Grattan's wit or ...
... sense , for though he said nothing , he laughed in the right place . " — Alliteration comes in here under the head of a certain sort of verbal wit ; or , by pointing the expression , sometimes points the sense . Mr. Grattan's wit or ...
34. oldal
... sense , but the form is wit . Thus the lines in Pope- " " Tis with our judgments as our watches , none Go just alike ; yet each believes his own— ” are witty , rather than poetical ; because the truth they convey is a mere dry ...
... sense , but the form is wit . Thus the lines in Pope- " " Tis with our judgments as our watches , none Go just alike ; yet each believes his own— ” are witty , rather than poetical ; because the truth they convey is a mere dry ...
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