Lectures on the English Comic Writers: Delivered at the Surry InstitutionM. Carey and Son, 1819 - 343 oldal |
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... in this little episode in common life , depends almost en- tirely on the greater or less degree of interest attached to the different changes of appearance , Or The mere suddenness of the transition , the mere ON WIT AND HUMOUR .
... in this little episode in common life , depends almost en- tirely on the greater or less degree of interest attached to the different changes of appearance , Or The mere suddenness of the transition , the mere ON WIT AND HUMOUR .
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... common 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 ...
... common 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 ...
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... common conversation , I appre- hend you , " is the most ludicrous thing in that ad- mirably natural and powerful performance , Mr. Emery's Robert Tyke . Again , unconsciousness in the person himself of what he is about , or of what ...
... common conversation , I appre- hend you , " is the most ludicrous thing in that ad- mirably natural and powerful performance , Mr. Emery's Robert Tyke . Again , unconsciousness in the person himself of what he is about , or of what ...
14. oldal
... common sense , and in the end mounting up to an incredible and unaccountably ridiculous height , when we find our expectations as invariably baffled . The most curious problem of all , is this truth of absurdity to itself 14 ON WIT AND ...
... common sense , and in the end mounting up to an incredible and unaccountably ridiculous height , when we find our expectations as invariably baffled . The most curious problem of all , is this truth of absurdity to itself 14 ON WIT AND ...
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... common epigram- Accept a miracle , instead of wit : See two dull lines with Stanhope's pencil writ . " But then the mode of paying it is playful and ironical , and contradicts itself in the very act of making its own performance an ...
... common epigram- Accept a miracle , instead of wit : See two dull lines with Stanhope's pencil writ . " But then the mode of paying it is playful and ironical , and contradicts itself in the very act of making its own performance an ...
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