Lectures on the English Comic WritersTaylor & Hessey, 1819 - 436 oldal |
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8. oldal
... stages , in the simply laughable , the lu- dicrous , the ridiculous ; and the effect is only the more complete , the more durably and pointedly this principle operates . To give some examples in these different kinds . We laugh , when ...
... stages , in the simply laughable , the lu- dicrous , the ridiculous ; and the effect is only the more complete , the more durably and pointedly this principle operates . To give some examples in these different kinds . We laugh , when ...
9. oldal
... stage - coach , or in it , if they seem in great extremity . It is hard to hinder children from laughing at a stammerer , at a negro , at a drunken man , or even at madman . We laugh at mischief . We laugh at what we do not believe . We ...
... stage - coach , or in it , if they seem in great extremity . It is hard to hinder children from laughing at a stammerer , at a negro , at a drunken man , or even at madman . We laugh at mischief . We laugh at what we do not believe . We ...
22. oldal
... stage . Humour is the describing the ludicrous as it is in itself ; wit is the exposing it , by comparing or contrasting it with something else . Humour is , as it were , the growth of nature and accident ; wit is the product of art and ...
... stage . Humour is the describing the ludicrous as it is in itself ; wit is the exposing it , by comparing or contrasting it with something else . Humour is , as it were , the growth of nature and accident ; wit is the product of art and ...
52. oldal
... stage , nor indeed on the French , but that they are carried off by the verse . The Critique de l'Ecole des Femmes , the dialogue of which is prose , is written in a very different style . Among other things , this little piece contains ...
... stage , nor indeed on the French , but that they are carried off by the verse . The Critique de l'Ecole des Femmes , the dialogue of which is prose , is written in a very different style . Among other things , this little piece contains ...
84. oldal
... stage . Bobadil is the only actually striking character in the play , and the real hero of the piece . His well - known proposal for the pacification of Europe , by killing some twenty of them , each his man a day , is as good as any ...
... stage . Bobadil is the only actually striking character in the play , and the real hero of the piece . His well - known proposal for the pacification of Europe , by killing some twenty of them , each his man a day , is as good as any ...
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