Lectures on the English Comic WritersTaylor & Hessey, 1819 - 436 oldal |
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1. oldal
... matters : we laugh at what only disappoints our expectations in trifles . We shed tears from sympathy with real and necessary distress ; as we burst into laughter from want of sympathy with that which is unreasonable and unnecessary ...
... matters : we laugh at what only disappoints our expectations in trifles . We shed tears from sympathy with real and necessary distress ; as we burst into laughter from want of sympathy with that which is unreasonable and unnecessary ...
5. oldal
... matter of this indifference , will only vent itself in a fit of laughter . * The transition here is not from one thing of importance to another , or from a state of indifference to a state of strong excitement ; but merely from one ...
... matter of this indifference , will only vent itself in a fit of laughter . * The transition here is not from one thing of importance to another , or from a state of indifference to a state of strong excitement ; but merely from one ...
10. oldal
... matter to ourselves ; because our self - love is stronger than our sympathy , sooner takes the alarm , and instantly turns our heedless mirth into gravity , which only enhances the jest to others . Some one is generally sure to be the ...
... matter to ourselves ; because our self - love is stronger than our sympathy , sooner takes the alarm , and instantly turns our heedless mirth into gravity , which only enhances the jest to others . Some one is generally sure to be the ...
12. oldal
... matter to preserve decorum in courts of justice . The smallest circumstance that interferes with the solemnity of the proceedings , throws the whole place into an uproar of laughter . People at the point of death often say smart things ...
... matter to preserve decorum in courts of justice . The smallest circumstance that interferes with the solemnity of the proceedings , throws the whole place into an uproar of laughter . People at the point of death often say smart things ...
13. oldal
... matter of course . So wit is often the more forcible and pointed for being dry and serious , for it then seems as if the speaker himself had no inten- tion in it , and we were the first to find it out . Irony , as a species of wit ...
... matter of course . So wit is often the more forcible and pointed for being dry and serious , for it then seems as if the speaker himself had no inten- tion in it , and we were the first to find it out . Irony , as a species of wit ...
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