Lectures on the English Comic Writers: Delivered at the Surry InstitutionM. Carey and Son, 1819 - 343 oldal |
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... means one thing , and another is aiming at something else , are another great source of comic humour , on the same principle of ambiguity and contrast . There is a high - wrought instance of this in the dialogue between Aimwell and ...
... means one thing , and another is aiming at something else , are another great source of comic humour , on the same principle of ambiguity and contrast . There is a high - wrought instance of this in the dialogue between Aimwell and ...
23. oldal
... mean more light and worthless ; or to divert our admiration or wean our affections from that which is lofty and impressive , instead of producing a more intense admiration and exalted passion , as poetry does . Wit may sometimes ...
... mean more light and worthless ; or to divert our admiration or wean our affections from that which is lofty and impressive , instead of producing a more intense admiration and exalted passion , as poetry does . Wit may sometimes ...
34. oldal
... means of government are the guinea and the gallows . " There can scarcely , it must be con- fessed , be a more effectual mode of political conversion than one of these applied to a man's friends , and the other to himself . The fine sar ...
... means of government are the guinea and the gallows . " There can scarcely , it must be con- fessed , be a more effectual mode of political conversion than one of these applied to a man's friends , and the other to himself . The fine sar ...
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... means the case . Swift would hardly have allowed of such a strait- laced theory , to make havoc with his darling conundrums ; though there is no one whose se- rious wit is more that of things , as opposed to a mere play either of words ...
... means the case . Swift would hardly have allowed of such a strait- laced theory , to make havoc with his darling conundrums ; though there is no one whose se- rious wit is more that of things , as opposed to a mere play either of words ...
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... means of some far- fetched conceit or quaint imagery . The matter is sense , but the form is wit . Thus the lines in Pope- " " Tis with our judgments as our watches , none Go just alike ; yet each believes his own- " are witty , rather ...
... means of some far- fetched conceit or quaint imagery . The matter is sense , but the form is wit . Thus the lines in Pope- " " Tis with our judgments as our watches , none Go just alike ; yet each believes his own- " are witty , rather ...
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