Lectures on the English Comic WritersTaylor & Hessey, 1819 - 436 oldal |
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8. oldal
... contrast is , however , the same in all the stages , in the simply laughable , the lu- dicrous , the ridiculous ; and the effect is only the more complete , the more durably and pointedly this principle operates . To give some examples ...
... contrast is , however , the same in all the stages , in the simply laughable , the lu- dicrous , the ridiculous ; and the effect is only the more complete , the more durably and pointedly this principle operates . To give some examples ...
9. oldal
... contrast , as their masters from the same principle make two for a pair . We laugh at the dress of foreigners , and they at ours . Three chimney - sweepers meet- ing three Chinese in Lincoln's - inn Fields , they laughed at one other ...
... contrast , as their masters from the same principle make two for a pair . We laugh at the dress of foreigners , and they at ours . Three chimney - sweepers meet- ing three Chinese in Lincoln's - inn Fields , they laughed at one other ...
12. oldal
... comic humour , on the same principle of ambiguity and contrast . There is a high - wrought instance of this in the dialogue between Aimwell and Gibbet , in the Beaux ' Stratagem , where Aimwell mistakes his companion 12 ON WIT AND HUMOUR .
... comic humour , on the same principle of ambiguity and contrast . There is a high - wrought instance of this in the dialogue between Aimwell and Gibbet , in the Beaux ' Stratagem , where Aimwell mistakes his companion 12 ON WIT AND HUMOUR .
13. oldal
... contrast between the appearance and the reality , the sus- pense of belief , and the seeming incongruity , that gives point to the ridicule , and makes it enter the deeper when the first impression is overcome . Excessive impudence , as ...
... contrast between the appearance and the reality , the sus- pense of belief , and the seeming incongruity , that gives point to the ridicule , and makes it enter the deeper when the first impression is overcome . Excessive impudence , as ...
24. oldal
... contrast to the train of our ordinary and literal preconceptions , than from any thing in the objects themselves exciting our necessary sympathy or lasting hatred . The favourite employment of wit is to add littleness to littleness ...
... contrast to the train of our ordinary and literal preconceptions , than from any thing in the objects themselves exciting our necessary sympathy or lasting hatred . The favourite employment of wit is to add littleness to littleness ...
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