Lectures on the English Comic WritersTaylor & Hessey, 1819 - 436 oldal |
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... pity ! · Tears may be considered as the natural and in- voluntary resource of the mind overcome by some sudden and violent emotion , before it has had time to reconcile its feelings to the change of circumstances ON WIT AND HUMOUR .
... pity ! · Tears may be considered as the natural and in- voluntary resource of the mind overcome by some sudden and violent emotion , before it has had time to reconcile its feelings to the change of circumstances ON WIT AND HUMOUR .
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William Hazlitt. time to reconcile its feelings to the change of circumstances : while laughter may be defined to be the same sort of convulsive and involuntary movement , occasioned by mere surprise or con- trast ( in the absence of any ...
William Hazlitt. time to reconcile its feelings to the change of circumstances : while laughter may be defined to be the same sort of convulsive and involuntary movement , occasioned by mere surprise or con- trast ( in the absence of any ...
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... feelings by the violent opposition of good to bad , or of objects to our desires , it becomes the pathetic or tragical . The ludicrous , or comic , is the unexpected loosening or relaxing this stress below its usual pitch of intensity ...
... feelings by the violent opposition of good to bad , or of objects to our desires , it becomes the pathetic or tragical . The ludicrous , or comic , is the unexpected loosening or relaxing this stress below its usual pitch of intensity ...
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... feeling against another . The first and most obvious cause of laughter is to be found in the simple succession of events , as in the sudden shifting of a disguise , or some unlooked- for accident , without any absurdity of character or ...
... feeling against another . The first and most obvious cause of laughter is to be found in the simple succession of events , as in the sudden shifting of a disguise , or some unlooked- for accident , without any absurdity of character or ...
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... feeling of character strengthens the sense of the ludicrous . Keeping in comic cha- racter is consistency in absurdity ; a determined and laudable attachment to the incongruous and singu- lar . The regularity completes the contradiction ...
... feeling of character strengthens the sense of the ludicrous . Keeping in comic cha- racter is consistency in absurdity ; a determined and laudable attachment to the incongruous and singu- lar . The regularity completes the contradiction ...
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