Lectures on the English Comic WritersTaylor & Hessey, 1819 - 436 oldal |
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8. oldal
... examples in these different kinds . We laugh , when children , at the sudden removing of a pasteboard mask : we laugh , when grown up , more gravely at the tearing off the mask of deceit . We laugh at absurdity ; we laugh at deformity ...
... examples in these different kinds . We laugh , when children , at the sudden removing of a pasteboard mask : we laugh , when grown up , more gravely at the tearing off the mask of deceit . We laugh at absurdity ; we laugh at deformity ...
26. oldal
... examples of this sort . - Wit or ludicrous invention produces its effect oftenest by comparison , but not always . It frequently effects its purposes by unexpected and subtle distinctions . For instance , in the first kind , Mr ...
... examples of this sort . - Wit or ludicrous invention produces its effect oftenest by comparison , but not always . It frequently effects its purposes by unexpected and subtle distinctions . For instance , in the first kind , Mr ...
27. oldal
... example of metaphorical wit as any on record . The same idea seems , however , to have been included in the old well - known nickname of the Rump Parlia- ment . Almost as happy an instance of the other kind of wit , which consists in ...
... example of metaphorical wit as any on record . The same idea seems , however , to have been included in the old well - known nickname of the Rump Parlia- ment . Almost as happy an instance of the other kind of wit , which consists in ...
51. oldal
... example , the absurdity of the Misanthrope , who leaves his mistress , after every proof of her attachment and constancy , for no other reason than that she will not submit to the technical formality of going to live with him in a ...
... example , the absurdity of the Misanthrope , who leaves his mistress , after every proof of her attachment and constancy , for no other reason than that she will not submit to the technical formality of going to live with him in a ...
59. oldal
... example as any of this informing and redeeming power in our author's genius might be taken from the comic scenes in both parts of Henry IV . Nothing can go much lower in in- tellect or morals than many of the characters . 66 Here are ...
... example as any of this informing and redeeming power in our author's genius might be taken from the comic scenes in both parts of Henry IV . Nothing can go much lower in in- tellect or morals than many of the characters . 66 Here are ...
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