Lectures on the English Comic WritersG. Cumberlege, Oxford University Press, 1951 - 248 oldal |
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... absurdity and propriety in words , looks , and actions . Of these different kinds or degrees of the laughable , the first is the most shallow and short - lived ; for the instant the immediate surprise of a thing's merely happening one ...
... absurdity and propriety in words , looks , and actions . Of these different kinds or degrees of the laughable , the first is the most shallow and short - lived ; for the instant the immediate surprise of a thing's merely happening one ...
6. oldal
... absurdity ; we laugh at deformity . We laugh at a bottle - nose in a caricature ; at a stuffed figure of an alderman in a pantomime , and at the tale of Slaukenbergius . A dwarf standing by a giant makes a contemptible figure enough ...
... absurdity ; we laugh at deformity . We laugh at a bottle - nose in a caricature ; at a stuffed figure of an alderman in a pantomime , and at the tale of Slaukenbergius . A dwarf standing by a giant makes a contemptible figure enough ...
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... absurdity ; a determined and laudable attachment to the incongruous and singular . The regularity completes the contradiction ; for the number of in- stances of deviation from the right line , branching out in all directions , shows the ...
... absurdity ; a determined and laudable attachment to the incongruous and singular . The regularity completes the contradiction ; for the number of in- stances of deviation from the right line , branching out in all directions , shows the ...
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