Lectures on the English Comic Writers: Delivered at the Surry InstitutionM. Carey and Son, 1819 - 343 oldal |
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... person it is particularly fond of , and does not find that person there , its countenance suddenly falls , its lips begin to quiver , its cheek turns pale , its eye glistens , and it vents its little sorrow ( grown too big to be con ...
... person it is particularly fond of , and does not find that person there , its countenance suddenly falls , its lips begin to quiver , its cheek turns pale , its eye glistens , and it vents its little sorrow ( grown too big to be con ...
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... persons it is ever so fond of , and either misses them where it had made sure of finding them , or suddenly runs up ... person concealed from assassins , is in no danger of betraying his situation by laughing . tinuous in our sensations ...
... persons it is ever so fond of , and either misses them where it had made sure of finding them , or suddenly runs up ... person concealed from assassins , is in no danger of betraying his situation by laughing . tinuous in our sensations ...
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... person because they never saw him before . Any one dressed in the height of the fashion , or quite out of it , is equally an object of ridicule . One rich source of the lu- dicrous is distress with which we cannot sympa- thise from its ...
... person because they never saw him before . Any one dressed in the height of the fashion , or quite out of it , is equally an object of ridicule . One rich source of the lu- dicrous is distress with which we cannot sympa- thise from its ...
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... person 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 ...
... person 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 ...
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... person himself of what he is about , or of what others think of him , is also a great heightener of the sense of absurdity . It makes it come the fuller home upon us from his insensibility to it . His simplicity sets off the satire ...
... person himself of what he is about , or of what others think of him , is also a great heightener of the sense of absurdity . It makes it come the fuller home upon us from his insensibility to it . His simplicity sets off the satire ...
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