Lectures on the English Comic WritersTaylor & Hessey, 1819 - 436 oldal |
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4. oldal
... spirits ; but the instant the change is not only sudden , but threatens 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 ...
... spirits ; but the instant the change is not only sudden , but threatens 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 ...
12. oldal
... spirit between them . The consciousness , however it may arise , that there is something that we ought to look grave at , is almost always a signal for laugh- ing outright : we can hardly keep our countenance at a sermon , a funeral ...
... spirit between them . The consciousness , however it may arise , that there is something that we ought to look grave at , is almost always a signal for laugh- ing outright : we can hardly keep our countenance at a sermon , a funeral ...
14. oldal
... spirit and invention ; and the more incredible the effrontery , the greater is the joke . There is nothing more powerfully humorous than what is called keeping in comic character , as we see it very finely exemplified in Sancho Panza ...
... spirit and invention ; and the more incredible the effrontery , the greater is the joke . There is nothing more powerfully humorous than what is called keeping in comic character , as we see it very finely exemplified in Sancho Panza ...
46. oldal
... spirit , and reach of wit more than vulgar : it seeming to argue a rare quickness of parts , that one can fetch in remote conceits applicable ; a notable skill that he can dextrously accommodate them to a purpose before him , together ...
... spirit , and reach of wit more than vulgar : it seeming to argue a rare quickness of parts , that one can fetch in remote conceits applicable ; a notable skill that he can dextrously accommodate them to a purpose before him , together ...
47. oldal
... spirit ; by provoking to such dispositions of spirit , in way of emulation or complaisance , and by sea- soning matter , otherwise distasteful or insipid , with an unusual and thence grateful tang . " - Barrow's Works , Serm . 14 . I ...
... spirit ; by provoking to such dispositions of spirit , in way of emulation or complaisance , and by sea- soning matter , otherwise distasteful or insipid , with an unusual and thence grateful tang . " - Barrow's Works , Serm . 14 . I ...
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