Lectures on the English Comic WritersTaylor & Hessey, 1819 - 436 oldal |
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... serious 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 ...
... serious 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 ...
3. oldal
... serious emotion ) , before it has time to reconcile its belief to contra- dictory appearances . If we hold a mask before our face , and approach a child with this disguise on , it will at first , from the oddity and incongruity of the ...
... serious emotion ) , before it has time to reconcile its belief to contra- dictory appearances . If we hold a mask before our face , and approach a child with this disguise on , it will at first , from the oddity and incongruity of the ...
4. oldal
... serious consequences , or calls up the shape of danger , terror supersedes our disposition to mirth , and laughter gives place to tears . It is usual to play with infants , and make them laugh by clapping your hands suddenly before them ...
... serious consequences , or calls up the shape of danger , terror supersedes our disposition to mirth , and laughter gives place to tears . It is usual to play with infants , and make them laugh by clapping your hands suddenly before them ...
6. oldal
... 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- ing one ...
... 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- ing one ...
8. oldal
... seriously make up our minds to the unaccountable deviation from it . The third sort , or the ridiculous arising out of absurdity as well as improbability , that is , where the defect or weakness is of a man's own seeking , is the most ...
... seriously make up our minds to the unaccountable deviation from it . The third sort , or the ridiculous arising out of absurdity as well as improbability , that is , where the defect or weakness is of a man's own seeking , is the most ...
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