Lectures on the English Comic WritersWiley and Putnam, 1845 - 222 sivua |
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Sivu 8
... feeling of character strengthens the sense of the ludi- crous . Keeping in comic character is consistency in absurdity ; a determined and laudable attachment to the incongruous and singular . The regularity completes the contradiction ...
... feeling of character strengthens the sense of the ludi- crous . Keeping in comic character is consistency in absurdity ; a determined and laudable attachment to the incongruous and singular . The regularity completes the contradiction ...
Sivu 16
... feeling , so as to make the professions of those who pre- tend to it correspond more with their practice . It is filling up a blank in the human heart with a word that explains its hollow- ness at once . Voltaire's saying , in answer to ...
... feeling , so as to make the professions of those who pre- tend to it correspond more with their practice . It is filling up a blank in the human heart with a word that explains its hollow- ness at once . Voltaire's saying , in answer to ...
Sivu 45
... feeling , as well as directness of understanding : but with all this , he wanted , to my thinking , that genial spirit of enjoyment and finer fancy , which constitute the essence of poetry and of wit . The sense of reality exercised a ...
... feeling , as well as directness of understanding : but with all this , he wanted , to my thinking , that genial spirit of enjoyment and finer fancy , which constitute the essence of poetry and of wit . The sense of reality exercised a ...
Sivu 55
... feeling the finer touches of nature , that he had felicity and force in detecting and exposing the aberrations from the broad and beaten path of propriety and common sense , he would have amply deserved the reputation he has acquired as ...
... feeling the finer touches of nature , that he had felicity and force in detecting and exposing the aberrations from the broad and beaten path of propriety and common sense , he would have amply deserved the reputation he has acquired as ...
Sivu 56
... feeling , by showing the same feeling as connected with objects or circumstances more palpable and touching ; but here the object was to strain and distort the immediate feeling into some barely possible consequence or recondite analogy ...
... feeling , by showing the same feeling as connected with objects or circumstances more palpable and touching ; but here the object was to strain and distort the immediate feeling into some barely possible consequence or recondite analogy ...
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