Lectures on the English Comic WritersWiley and Putnam, 1845 - 222 sivua |
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... lively sense of pleasure , and leaves no time nor inclination for painful reflections . The essence of the laughable then is the incongruous , the disconnecting one idea from another , or the jostling of one feel- ing against another ...
... lively sense of pleasure , and leaves no time nor inclination for painful reflections . The essence of the laughable then is the incongruous , the disconnecting one idea from another , or the jostling of one feel- ing against another ...
Sivu 6
... lively and piquant is the intellectual display of cross - purposes to the by - standers . Our humiliation is their triumph . We are occupied with the disagreeableness of the result instead of its oddity or unexpectedness . Others see ...
... lively and piquant is the intellectual display of cross - purposes to the by - standers . Our humiliation is their triumph . We are occupied with the disagreeableness of the result instead of its oddity or unexpectedness . Others see ...
Sivu 9
... lively and lasting an interest in itself , even though it should not be wisdom , is not despicable in the sight of reason and humanity . We cannot suppress the smile on the lip ; but the tear should also stand ready to start from the ...
... lively and lasting an interest in itself , even though it should not be wisdom , is not despicable in the sight of reason and humanity . We cannot suppress the smile on the lip ; but the tear should also stand ready to start from the ...
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... lively sense of future favours , " is no doubt wit , but it does not consist in the finding out any coincidence or likeness , but in suddenly transposing the order of time in the common account of this feeling , so as to make the ...
... lively sense of future favours , " is no doubt wit , but it does not consist in the finding out any coincidence or likeness , but in suddenly transposing the order of time in the common account of this feeling , so as to make the ...
Sivu 21
... lively and picturesque fancy , of legal acuteness in detecting the vari- able applications of words , and of a mind apt at perceiving the ludicrous in external objects . " Do you see any thing ridiculous in this wig ? " said one of his ...
... lively and picturesque fancy , of legal acuteness in detecting the vari- able applications of words , and of a mind apt at perceiving the ludicrous in external objects . " Do you see any thing ridiculous in this wig ? " said one of his ...
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