Lectures on the English Comic WritersTaylor & Hessey, 1819 - 436 oldal |
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6. oldal
... sense and serious concern at defiance . To understand or define the ludicrous , we must first know what the serious is . Now the serious is the habitual stress which the mind lays upon the expectation of a given order of events , follow ...
... sense and serious concern at defiance . To understand or define the ludicrous , we must first know what the serious is . Now the serious is the habitual stress which the mind lays upon the expectation of a given order of events , follow ...
7. oldal
... sense and reason , or is a voluntary departure from what we have a right to expect from those who are conscious of absurdity and propriety in words , looks , and ac- tions . Of these different kinds or degrees of the Jaughable , the ...
... sense and reason , or is a voluntary departure from what we have a right to expect from those who are conscious of absurdity and propriety in words , looks , and ac- tions . Of these different kinds or degrees of the Jaughable , the ...
8. oldal
... sense of the impropriety , adds a severity to it in- consistent with perfect ease and enjoyment . This last species is properly the province of satire . The principle of contrast is , however , the same in all the stages , in the simply ...
... sense of the impropriety , adds a severity to it in- consistent with perfect ease and enjoyment . This last species is properly the province of satire . The principle of contrast is , however , the same in all the stages , in the simply ...
13. oldal
... sense of absurdity . It makes it come the fuller home upon us from his insensibility to it . His simplicity sets off the satire , and gives it a finer edge . It is a more extreme case still where the person is aware of being the object ...
... sense of absurdity . It makes it come the fuller home upon us from his insensibility to it . His simplicity sets off the satire , and gives it a finer edge . It is a more extreme case still where the person is aware of being the object ...
14. oldal
... 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 ; for the number of instances of ...
... 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 ; for the number of instances of ...
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