Lectures on the English Comic WritersTaylor & Hessey, 1819 - 436 oldal |
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8. oldal
... when grown up , more gravely at the tearing off the mask of deceit . We laugh at absurdity ; we laugh at deformity . We laugh at a bottle - nose in a caricature ; at a stuffed figure of an alderman in a pantomime , and 8 ON WIT AND HUMOUR .
... when grown up , more gravely at the tearing off the mask of deceit . We laugh at absurdity ; we laugh at deformity . We laugh at a bottle - nose in a caricature ; at a stuffed figure of an alderman in a pantomime , and 8 ON WIT AND HUMOUR .
9. oldal
William Hazlitt. stuffed figure of an alderman in a pantomime , and at the tale of Slaukenbergius . A giant standing by a dwarf makes a contemptible figure enough . Rosinante and Dapple are laughable from contrast , as their masters from ...
William Hazlitt. stuffed figure of an alderman in a pantomime , and at the tale of Slaukenbergius . A giant standing by a dwarf makes a contemptible figure enough . Rosinante and Dapple are laughable from contrast , as their masters from ...
44. oldal
... figures , no bigger than one's thumb , strut , squeak and gibber , sing , dance , chatter , scold , knock one another about the head , give themselves airs of importance , and " imitate humanity most abominably , " without laughing ...
... figures , no bigger than one's thumb , strut , squeak and gibber , sing , dance , chatter , scold , knock one another about the head , give themselves airs of importance , and " imitate humanity most abominably , " without laughing ...
45. oldal
... figure of fleeting air . Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story , or in seasonable application of a trivial saying , or in forging an apposite tale : sometimes it playeth in words and phrases , taking advantage from the ...
... figure of fleeting air . Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story , or in seasonable application of a trivial saying , or in forging an apposite tale : sometimes it playeth in words and phrases , taking advantage from the ...
89. oldal
William Hazlitt. * Cut in more subtle angles , to disperse And multiply the figures , as I walk . * I'll have of perfume , vapoured about the room To lose ourselves in ; and my baths , like pits To fall into : from whence we will come ...
William Hazlitt. * Cut in more subtle angles , to disperse And multiply the figures , as I walk . * I'll have of perfume , vapoured about the room To lose ourselves in ; and my baths , like pits To fall into : from whence we will come ...
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