Lectures on the English Comic WritersTaylor & Hessey, 1819 - 436 oldal |
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2. oldal
... mind when they once seize upon it , and when the pres- sure can no longer be borne , seek relief in tears : the follies and absurdities that men commit , or the odd accidents that befal them , afford us amuse- ment from the very ...
... mind when they once seize upon it , and when the pres- sure can no longer be borne , seek relief in tears : the follies and absurdities that men commit , or the odd accidents that befal them , afford us amuse- ment from the very ...
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... mind having been led to form a certain conclusion , and the result producing an immediate solution of continuity in the chain of our ideas , this alternate excitement and relaxation of the imagination , the object also striking upon the ...
... mind having been led to form a certain conclusion , and the result producing an immediate solution of continuity in the chain of our ideas , this alternate excitement and relaxation of the imagination , the object also striking upon the ...
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... mind lays upon the expectation of a given order of events , follow- ing one another with a certain regularity and weight of interest attached to them . When this stress is increased beyond its usual pitch of inten- sity , so as to ...
... mind lays upon the expectation of a given order of events , follow- ing one another with a certain regularity and weight of interest attached to them . When this stress is increased beyond its usual pitch of inten- sity , so as to ...
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William Hazlitt. perilous adventures , have applied their healing influence to many a hurt mind . — In what relates to the laughable , as it arises from unforeseen ac- cidents or self - willed scrapes , the pain , the shame , the ...
William Hazlitt. perilous adventures , have applied their healing influence to many a hurt mind . — In what relates to the laughable , as it arises from unforeseen ac- cidents or self - willed scrapes , the pain , the shame , the ...
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... mind to ; " but the wit consists in the truth of the character , and in the happy exposure of the ludicrous con · tradiction between the pretext and the practice ; between their lenity towards their own vices , and their severity to ...
... mind to ; " but the wit consists in the truth of the character , and in the happy exposure of the ludicrous con · tradiction between the pretext and the practice ; between their lenity towards their own vices , and their severity to ...
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