Lectures on the English Comic WritersWiley and Putnam, 1845 - 222 sivua |
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... give additional liveliness and gaiety to the animal spirits ; but the instant the change is not only sudden , but ... gives place to tears . It is usual to play with 2 [ LECTURE I. ON WIT AND HUMOUR .
... give additional liveliness and gaiety to the animal spirits ; but the instant the change is not only sudden , but ... gives place to tears . It is usual to play with 2 [ LECTURE I. ON WIT AND HUMOUR .
Sivu 4
... give way at the same time . We turn with an incredulous smile from a story that staggers our belief : and we are ready to split our sides with laughing at an extravagance that sets all common sense and serious concern at defiance . To ...
... give way at the same time . We turn with an incredulous smile from a story that staggers our belief : and we are ready to split our sides with laughing at an extravagance that sets all common sense and serious concern at defiance . To ...
Sivu 5
... give some examples in these different kinds . We laugh , when children , at the sudden removing of a paste - board mask : we laugh , when grown up , more gravely at the tearing off the mask of deceit . We laugh at absurdity ; we laugh ...
... give some examples in these different kinds . We laugh , when children , at the sudden removing of a paste - board mask : we laugh , when grown up , more gravely at the tearing off the mask of deceit . We laugh at absurdity ; we laugh ...
Sivu 6
... pain as well , which more than counterbalances the speculative entertainment we might receive from the con- templation of our abstract situation . • You cannot force people to laugh , you cannot give 6 [ LECTURE I. ON WIT AND HUMOUR .
... pain as well , which more than counterbalances the speculative entertainment we might receive from the con- templation of our abstract situation . • You cannot force people to laugh , you cannot give 6 [ LECTURE I. ON WIT AND HUMOUR .
Sivu 7
William Hazlitt. You cannot force people to laugh , you cannot give a reason why they should laugh ; —they must laugh of themselves , or not at all . As we laugh from a spontaneous impulse , we laugh the more at any restraint upon this ...
William Hazlitt. You cannot force people to laugh , you cannot give a reason why they should laugh ; —they must laugh of themselves , or not at all . As we laugh from a spontaneous impulse , we laugh the more at any restraint upon this ...
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absurdity admiration affectation amusing appearance artificial beauty Beggar's Opera Ben Jonson better blank verse Boccaccio character Chaucer circumstances comedy comic common critics delight describes Don Quixote double entendre dramatic elegance equal excellence face fancy feeling flowers folly genius Gil Blas give grace heart Hogarth Hudibras human humour idea imagination imitation instance interest kind Lady language laugh light lively look Lord Byron lover ludicrous Lycidas Lyrical Ballads manners Milton mind moral Muse nature never objects painted passion person picture play pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope prose reader refinement ridiculous satire scene School for Scandal seems sense sentiment Shakspeare Shakspeare's sort soul Spenser spirit story style sweet Tartuffe Tatler thee things thou thought tion Tom Jones truth turn verse vice whole wild words Wordsworth writer