Lectures on the English Comic Writers: Delivered at the Surry InstitutionM. Carey and Son, 1819 - 343 oldal |
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11. oldal
... force people to laugh : you cannot give a reason why they should laugh : they must laugh of themselves , or not at all . As we laugh from a spontaneous impulse , we laugh the more at any restraint upon this impulse . We laugh at a thing ...
... force people to laugh : you cannot give a reason why they should laugh : they must laugh of themselves , or not at all . As we laugh from a spontaneous impulse , we laugh the more at any restraint upon this impulse . We laugh at a thing ...
13. oldal
... force to the same principle . In such cases it is the contrast between the appearance and the reality , the sus- pense of belief , and the seeming incongruity , that gives point to the ridicule , and makes it enter the deeper when the ...
... force to the same principle . In such cases it is the contrast between the appearance and the reality , the sus- pense of belief , and the seeming incongruity , that gives point to the ridicule , and makes it enter the deeper when the ...
72. oldal
... force and forceless * care , As if that luck , in very spite of cunning , Bad him win all . " There are people who cannot taste olives - and I cannot much relish Ben Jonson , though I have taken some pains to do it , and went to the ...
... force and forceless * care , As if that luck , in very spite of cunning , Bad him win all . " There are people who cannot taste olives - and I cannot much relish Ben Jonson , though I have taken some pains to do it , and went to the ...
84. oldal
... force on the 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 ...
... force on the 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 ...
93. oldal
... force in detect- ing and exposing the aberrations from the broad and beaten path of propriety and common sense , he would have amply deserved the reputation he has acquired as a philosophical critic . The writers here referred to ( such ...
... force in detect- ing and exposing the aberrations from the broad and beaten path of propriety and common sense , he would have amply deserved the reputation he has acquired as a philosophical critic . The writers here referred to ( such ...
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