Lectures on the English Comic WritersJ.M. Dent & Sons, Limited, 1930 - 340 oldal |
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5. oldal
... absurdity of which provokes our spleen or mirth , rather than any serious reflections on it . To explain the nature of laughter and tears , is to account for the condition of human life ; for it is in a manner compounded of these two ...
... absurdity of which provokes our spleen or mirth , rather than any serious reflections on it . To explain the nature of laughter and tears , is to account for the condition of human life ; for it is in a manner compounded of these two ...
8. oldal
... 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 ...
151. oldal
... absurdity and prejudice in the world as ever - that there are the same unaccountable per- versities lurking at the ... absurdities of modern manners , they are too shallow and barefaced , and those who affect are too little serious in ...
... absurdity and prejudice in the world as ever - that there are the same unaccountable per- versities lurking at the ... absurdities of modern manners , they are too shallow and barefaced , and those who affect are too little serious in ...
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