 You may estimate your capacity for Comic perception by being able to detect the ridicule of them you love, without loving them less : and more by being able to see yourself somewhat ridiculous in dear eyes, and accepting the correction their image of...  The Book Buyer - 199. oldal1897Teljes nézet - Információ erről a könyvről
 | 1911 - 520 oldal
...ridicule, and your kindliness is chilled by it, you are slipping into the grasp of satire. — 79. You may estimate your capacity for Comic perception...being able to see yourself somewhat ridiculous in dear eves, and accepting the correction their image of you proposes. — 78. The stroke of the great humourist... | |
 | 1911 - 516 oldal
...ridicule, and your kindliness is chilled by it, you are slipping into the grasp of Satire. — 79. You may estimate your capacity for Comic perception...the ridicule of them you love, without loving them leas: and more by being able to see yourself somewhat ridiculous in dear eyes, and accepting the correction... | |
 | Richard Le Gallienne - 1890 - 278 oldal
...it enfolds a thinner form of them." And preceding these definitions Mr. Meredith had written : — "You may estimate your capacity for comic perception...accepting the correction their image of you proposes." It is just in this spirit that Mr. Meredith laughs at men and women, loving or pitying them all the... | |
 | 1895 - 720 oldal
...averse. All violent contrasts fain avoid would I On passing from this world into a worse." Ibid. * « * You may estimate your capacity for comic perception...accepting the correction their image of you proposes." "The i 'иипe Mn»e" — GEORGE MEREDITH. ' ' The common problem, yours, mine, every one's, Is not... | |
 | 1896 - 814 oldal
...upon the other. (Putnam. $1.50.)— From CamfbelCs " Household Eionomifs." Comic Perception and Humor. You may estimate your capacity for comic perception...accepting the correction their image of you proposes. Each one of an affectionate couple may be willing, as we say, to die for the other, yet unwilling to... | |
 | George Meredith - 1897 - 110 oldal
...decorate it with asses' ears and the most beautiful sylvan haloes. But the Comic is a different spirit. You may estimate your capacity for Comic perception...accepting the correction their image of you proposes. Each one of an affectionate couple may be willing, as we say, to die for the other, yet unwilling to... | |
 | George Meredith - 1897 - 120 oldal
...decorate it with asses' ears and the most beautiful sylvan haloes. But_the Comic is a different spirit. You may estimate your capacity for Comic perception by being able to detect the ridicule of thpm you love, without loving them less : and more by being able to see yourself somewhat. rjdiculoiis... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne - 1897 - 808 oldal
...detect the ridicule of them he loves, without loving them less ; and more, by being able to see himself somewhat ridiculous in dear eyes, and accepting the correction their image of him proposes. The wide learning and tireless research of the Rev. John Owen (an English clergyman)... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne - 1897 - 812 oldal
...detect the ridicule of them he loves, without loving them less ; and more, by being able to see himself somewhat ridiculous in dear eyes, and accepting the correction their image of him proposes. _ The wide learning and tireless research of the Rev. John Owen (an English clergyman)... | |
 | Gertrude Buck, Elisabeth Woodbridge Morris - 1899 - 312 oldal
...of such discriminations are expressed by means of symbolic description in the following passage: '' You may estimate your capacity for comic perception...accepting the correction their image of you proposes. " If you detect the ridicule and your kindliness is chilled by it, you are slipping into the grasp... | |
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