Lectures on the English Comic Writers: Delivered at the Surry InstitutionM. Carey and Son, 1819 - 343 oldal |
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... thing that went wrong , if every vanity or weakness in another gave us a sensible pang , it would be hard indeed : but as long as the dis- agreeableness of the consequences of a sudden disaster is kept out of sight by the immediate ...
... thing that went wrong , if every vanity or weakness in another gave us a sensible pang , it would be hard indeed : but as long as the dis- agreeableness of the consequences of a sudden disaster is kept out of sight by the immediate ...
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... thing of importance to another , or from a state of indifference to a state of strong excitement ; but merely from one impression to another that we did not at all expect , and when we had expected just the contrary . The mind having ...
... thing of importance to another , or from a state of indifference to a state of strong excitement ; but merely from one impression to another that we did not at all expect , and when we had expected just the contrary . The mind having ...
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... thing's merely happening one way or another is over , there is nothing to throw us back upon our former expectation , and renew our wonder at the event a second time . The second sort , that is , the ludicrous arising out of the ...
... thing's merely happening one way or another is over , there is nothing to throw us back upon our former expectation , and renew our wonder at the event a second time . The second sort , that is , the ludicrous arising out of the ...
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... thing merely because we ought not . If we think we must not laugh , this perverse impediment makes our temptation to laugh the greater ; for by en- deavouring to keep the obnoxious image out of sight , it comes upon us more irresistibly ...
... thing merely because we ought not . If we think we must not laugh , this perverse impediment makes our temptation to laugh the greater ; for by en- deavouring to keep the obnoxious image out of sight , it comes upon us more irresistibly ...
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... things . Sir Thomas More jested with his executioner . Rabelais and Wycherley both died with a bon - mot in their mouths . Misunderstandings , ( malentendus ) where one person means one thing , and another is aiming at something else ...
... things . Sir Thomas More jested with his executioner . Rabelais and Wycherley both died with a bon - mot in their mouths . Misunderstandings , ( malentendus ) where one person means one thing , and another is aiming at something else ...
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