Lectures on the English Comic Writers: Delivered at the Surry InstitutionM. Carey and Son, 1819 - 343 oldal |
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5. oldal
... object also striking upon the mind more vividly in its loose unsettled state , and before it has had time to re- cover and collect itself , causes that alternate ex- citement and relaxation , or irregular convulsive movement of the ...
... object also striking upon the mind more vividly in its loose unsettled state , and before it has had time to re- cover and collect itself , causes that alternate ex- citement and relaxation , or irregular convulsive movement of the ...
6. oldal
... objects to our desires , it becomes the pathetic or tragical . The ludicrous , or comic , is the unexpected loosening or relaxing this stress below its usual pitch of intensity , by such an abrupt transposition of the order of our ideas ...
... objects to our desires , it becomes the pathetic or tragical . The ludicrous , or comic , is the unexpected loosening or relaxing this stress below its usual pitch of intensity , by such an abrupt transposition of the order of our ideas ...
7. oldal
... object and our ex- pectations , heightened by some deformity or incon- venience , that is , by its being contrary to what is customary or desirable ; as the ridiculous , which is the highest degree of the laughable , is that which is ...
... object and our ex- pectations , heightened by some deformity or incon- venience , that is , by its being contrary to what is customary or desirable ; as the ridiculous , which is the highest degree of the laughable , is that which is ...
9. oldal
... object of ridicule . One rich source of the lu- dicrous is distress with which we cannot sympa- thise from its absurdity or insignificance . Women laugh at their lovers . We laugh at a damned author , in spite of our teeth , and though ...
... object of ridicule . One rich source of the lu- dicrous is distress with which we cannot sympa- thise from its absurdity or insignificance . Women laugh at their lovers . We laugh at a damned author , in spite of our teeth , and though ...
13. oldal
... object of ridicule , and yet seems perfectly reconciled to it as a matter of course . So wit is often the more forcible and pointed for being dry and serious , for it then seems as if the speaker himself had no inten- tion in it , and ...
... object of ridicule , and yet seems perfectly reconciled to it as a matter of course . So wit is often the more forcible and pointed for being dry and serious , for it then seems as if the speaker himself had no inten- tion in it , and ...
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