Lectures on the English Comic Writers: Delivered at the Surry InstitutionM. Carey and Son, 1819 - 343 oldal |
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14. oldal
... kind of excel- lence . The deep feeling of character strengthens the sense of the ludicrous . Keeping in comic cha- racter is consistency in absurdity ; a determined and laudable attachment to the incongruous and singu- lar . The ...
... kind of excel- lence . The deep feeling of character strengthens the sense of the ludicrous . Keeping in comic cha- racter is consistency in absurdity ; a determined and laudable attachment to the incongruous and singu- lar . The ...
26. oldal
... kind , Mr. Sheridan's description of Mr. Addington's adminis- tration as the fag - end of Mr. Pitt's , who had re- mained so long on the treasury bench that , like Nicias in the fable , " he left the sitting 26 ON WIT AND HUMOUR .
... kind , Mr. Sheridan's description of Mr. Addington's adminis- tration as the fag - end of Mr. Pitt's , who had re- mained so long on the treasury bench that , like Nicias in the fable , " he left the sitting 26 ON WIT AND HUMOUR .
27. oldal
... kind of wit , which consists in sudden retorts , in turns upon an idea , and diverting the train of your adversary's argument abruptly and adroitly into another channel , may be seen in the sarcastic reply of Porson , who hearing some ...
... kind of wit , which consists in sudden retorts , in turns upon an idea , and diverting the train of your adversary's argument abruptly and adroitly into another channel , may be seen in the sarcastic reply of Porson , who hearing some ...
35. oldal
... kind . - Rhymes are sometimes a species of wit , where there is an alternate combination and resolution or decomposition of the elements of sound , contrary to our usual division and classi- fication of them in ordinary speech , not ...
... kind . - Rhymes are sometimes a species of wit , where there is an alternate combination and resolution or decomposition of the elements of sound , contrary to our usual division and classi- fication of them in ordinary speech , not ...
37. oldal
... kind of wit of the humorist , where the person makes a butt of himself , and exhibits his own absurdities or foibles purposely in the most pointed and glaring lights , runs through the whole of the character of Falstaff , and is , in ...
... kind of wit of the humorist , where the person makes a butt of himself , and exhibits his own absurdities or foibles purposely in the most pointed and glaring lights , runs through the whole of the character of Falstaff , and is , in ...
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