Lectures on the English Comic Writers: Delivered at the Surry InstitutionM. Carey and Son, 1819 - 343 oldal |
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... word , it will begin to be alarmed , and be half inclined . to cry : if we suddenly take off the mask , it will recover from its fears , and burst out a - laughing ; but if , instead of presenting the old well - known countenance , we ...
... word , it will begin to be alarmed , and be half inclined . to cry : if we suddenly take off the mask , it will recover from its fears , and burst out a - laughing ; but if , instead of presenting the old well - known countenance , we ...
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... words , looks , and ac- tions . Of these different kinds or degrees of the laughable , the first is the most shallow and short- lived ; for the instant the immediate surprise of a thing's merely happening one way or another is over ...
... words , looks , and ac- tions . Of these different kinds or degrees of the laughable , the first is the most shallow and short- lived ; for the instant the immediate surprise of a thing's merely happening one way or another is over ...
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... stealth and unawares , and from the very efforts we make to exclude it . A secret , a loose word , a wanton jest , make people laugh . Aretine laughed himself to death at hearing a lascivious story . Wicked- ness ON WIT AND HUMOUR . 11.
... stealth and unawares , and from the very efforts we make to exclude it . A secret , a loose word , a wanton jest , make people laugh . Aretine laughed himself to death at hearing a lascivious story . Wicked- ness ON WIT AND HUMOUR . 11.
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... word : whereas , in the other , the only memorable thing is a grotesque and ludicrous illustration of the alteration which takes place from darkness to gorgeous light , and that brought from the lowest instance , and with associations ...
... word : whereas , in the other , the only memorable thing is a grotesque and ludicrous illustration of the alteration which takes place from darkness to gorgeous light , and that brought from the lowest instance , and with associations ...
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... word that explains its hollowness at once . Voltaire's saying , in answer to a stranger who was observing how tall his trees grew- " That they had nothing else to do❞ — was a quaint mixture of wit and humour , making it out as if they ...
... word that explains its hollowness at once . Voltaire's saying , in answer to a stranger who was observing how tall his trees grew- " That they had nothing else to do❞ — was a quaint mixture of wit and humour , making it out as if they ...
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