Lectures on the English Comic Writers: Delivered at the Surry InstitutionM. Carey and Son, 1819 - 343 oldal |
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... ludicrous prevails over the pathetic , and we receive pleasure instead of pain from the farce of life which is played before us , and which discomposes our gravity as often as it fails to move our anger or our pity ! Tears may be ...
... ludicrous prevails over the pathetic , and we receive pleasure instead of pain from the farce of life which is played before us , and which discomposes our gravity as often as it fails to move our anger or our pity ! Tears may be ...
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... 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 , follow- ing one another with a certain regularity and weight of interest ...
... 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 , follow- ing one another with a certain regularity and weight of interest ...
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... ludicrous : it is merely laughable . The ludicrous is where there is the same contradiction between the object and our ex- pectations , heightened by some deformity or incon- venience , that is , by its being contrary to what is ...
... ludicrous : it is merely laughable . The ludicrous is where there is the same contradiction between the object and our ex- pectations , heightened by some deformity or incon- venience , that is , by its being contrary to what is ...
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Delivered at the Surry Institution William Hazlitt. the ludicrous arising out of the improbable or dis- tressing , is more deep and lasting , either because the painful catastrophe excites a greater curiosity , or because the old ...
Delivered at the Surry Institution William Hazlitt. the ludicrous arising out of the improbable or dis- tressing , is more deep and lasting , either because the painful catastrophe excites a greater curiosity , or because the old ...
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... as- sertion that is very absurd , is quite ludicrous . We laugh to shew our satisfaction with ourselves , or our contempt for those about us , or to conceal our envy or our ignorance . We laugh at fools , ON WIT AND HUMOUR . 9.
... as- sertion that is very absurd , is quite ludicrous . We laugh to shew our satisfaction with ourselves , or our contempt for those about us , or to conceal our envy or our ignorance . We laugh at fools , ON WIT AND HUMOUR . 9.
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