Lectures on the English Comic WritersTaylor & Hessey, 1819 - 436 oldal |
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7. oldal
... character or situation . The accidental contradiction between our expectations and the event can hardly be said , however , to amount to the ludicrous : it is merely laughable . The ludicrous is where there is the same contradiction ...
... character or situation . The accidental contradiction between our expectations and the event can hardly be said , however , to amount to the ludicrous : it is merely laughable . The ludicrous is where there is the same contradiction ...
14. oldal
... character , as we see it very finely exemplified in Sancho Panza and Don Quixote . The proverbial phlegm and the romantic gravity of these two celebrated persons may be regarded as the height of this kind of excel- lence . The deep ...
... character , as we see it very finely exemplified in Sancho Panza and Don Quixote . The proverbial phlegm and the romantic gravity of these two celebrated persons may be regarded as the height of this kind of excel- lence . The deep ...
19. oldal
... character of being " justly called the Silent , " is a consummation of the jest , though , if it had really taken place , it would have been carrying the joke too far . There are a thousand instances of the same sort in the Thousand and ...
... character of being " justly called the Silent , " is a consummation of the jest , though , if it had really taken place , it would have been carrying the joke too far . There are a thousand instances of the same sort in the Thousand and ...
23. oldal
... character : wit is the illustrating and heightening the sense of that absurdity by some sudden and unexpected likeness or opposition of one thing to another , which sets off the quality we laugh at or despise in a still more ...
... character : wit is the illustrating and heightening the sense of that absurdity by some sudden and unexpected likeness or opposition of one thing to another , which sets off the quality we laugh at or despise in a still more ...
28. oldal
... character , and in the happy exposure of the ludicrous con · tradiction between the pretext and the practice ; between their lenity towards their own vices , and their severity to those of others . The same prin- ciple of nice ...
... character , and in the happy exposure of the ludicrous con · tradiction between the pretext and the practice ; between their lenity towards their own vices , and their severity to those of others . The same prin- ciple of nice ...
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