Lectures on the English Comic Writers: Delivered at the Surry InstitutionM. Carey and Son, 1819 - 343 oldal |
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... unreasonable and unnecessary , the absurdity of which provokes our spleen or mirth , rather than any serious reflec- tions on it . B If To explain the nature of laughter and tears , LECTURE Page INTRODUCTORY -ON WIT AND HUMOUR.
... unreasonable and unnecessary , the absurdity of which provokes our spleen or mirth , rather than any serious reflec- tions on it . B If To explain the nature of laughter and tears , LECTURE Page INTRODUCTORY -ON WIT AND HUMOUR.
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Delivered at the Surry Institution William Hazlitt. If To explain the nature of laughter and tears , is to account ... natural and in- voluntary resource of the mind overcome by some sudden and violent emotion , before it has had time to ...
Delivered at the Surry Institution William Hazlitt. If To explain the nature of laughter and tears , is to account ... natural and in- voluntary resource of the mind overcome by some sudden and violent emotion , before it has had time to ...
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... nature . That which excites so lively and lasting an interest in itself , even though it should not be wisdom , is not despicable in the sight of reason and hu- manity . We cannot suppress the smile on the lip ; but the tear should also ...
... nature . That which excites so lively and lasting an interest in itself , even though it should not be wisdom , is not despicable in the sight of reason and hu- manity . We cannot suppress the smile on the lip ; but the tear should also ...
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... , by comparing or contrasting it with something else . Humour is , as it were , the growth of nature and accident ; wit is the product of art and fancy . Humour , as it is shewn in books , is an imitation of 22 ON WIT AND HUMOUR .
... , by comparing or contrasting it with something else . Humour is , as it were , the growth of nature and accident ; wit is the product of art and fancy . Humour , as it is shewn in books , is an imitation of 22 ON WIT AND HUMOUR .
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... nature , is wit just as much as the bringing together those that appear at first sight totally different . There is then no sufficient ground for admitting Mr. Locke's celebrated definition of wit , which he makes to consist in the ...
... nature , is wit just as much as the bringing together those that appear at first sight totally different . There is then no sufficient ground for admitting Mr. Locke's celebrated definition of wit , which he makes to consist in the ...
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