Lectures on the English Comic Writers: Delivered at the Surry InstitutionM. Carey and Son, 1819 - 343 oldal |
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... striking thing in it , the 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 ...
... striking thing in it , the 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 ...
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... 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 muscular and ...
... 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 muscular and ...
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... striking weaknesses and greatest happinesses of our 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 ...
... striking weaknesses and greatest happinesses of our 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 ...
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... striking point of view . Wit , as distinguished from poetry , is the imagination or fancy inverted , and so applied to given objects , as to make the little look less , the mean more light and worthless ; or to divert our admiration or ...
... striking point of view . Wit , as distinguished from poetry , is the imagination or fancy inverted , and so applied to given objects , as to make the little look less , the mean more light and worthless ; or to divert our admiration or ...
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Delivered at the Surry Institution William Hazlitt. indifference , or an ingenious and striking exposi → tion of those evanescent and glancing impressions of objects which affect us more from surprise or contrast to the train of our ...
Delivered at the Surry Institution William Hazlitt. indifference , or an ingenious and striking exposi → tion of those evanescent and glancing impressions of objects which affect us more from surprise or contrast to the train of our ...
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