Lectures on the English Comic Writers: Delivered at the Surry InstitutionM. Carey and Son, 1819 - 343 oldal |
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10. oldal
... tion that we feel , put a stop to our mirth ; while the disasters that come home to us , and excite our repugnance and dismay , are an amusing spectacle to others . The greater resistance we make , and the greater the perplexity into ...
... tion that we feel , put a stop to our mirth ; while the disasters that come home to us , and excite our repugnance and dismay , are an amusing spectacle to others . The greater resistance we make , and the greater the perplexity into ...
13. oldal
... tion in it , and we were the first to find it out . Irony , as a species of wit , owes its force to the same principle . In such cases it is the contrast between the appearance and the reality , the sus- pense of belief , and the ...
... tion in it , and we were the first to find it out . Irony , as a species of wit , owes its force to the same principle . In such cases it is the contrast between the appearance and the reality , the sus- pense of belief , and the ...
16. oldal
... tion , add to the joke , provided they are momen- tary , or overwhelming only to the imagination of the sufferer . Malvolio's punishment and appre- hensions are as comic , from our knowing that they are not real , as Christopher Sly's ...
... tion , add to the joke , provided they are momen- tary , or overwhelming only to the imagination of the sufferer . Malvolio's punishment and appre- hensions are as comic , from our knowing that they are not real , as Christopher Sly's ...
23. oldal
... soon as it describes the serious seriously , it ceases to be wit , and passes into a different form . Wit is , in fact , the eloquence of indifference , or an ingenious and striking exposi → tion ON WIT AND HUMOUR . , 23.
... soon as it describes the serious seriously , it ceases to be wit , and passes into a different form . Wit is , in fact , the eloquence of indifference , or an ingenious and striking exposi → tion ON WIT AND HUMOUR . , 23.
24. oldal
... tion of those evanescent and glancing impressions of objects which affect us more from surprise or contrast to the train of our ordinary and literal preconceptions , than from any thing in the objects themselves exciting our necessary ...
... tion of those evanescent and glancing impressions of objects which affect us more from surprise or contrast to the train of our ordinary and literal preconceptions , than from any thing in the objects themselves exciting our necessary ...
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