Lectures on the English Comic WritersWiley and Putnam, 1845 - 222 sivua |
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... HIS SON . " It is a very good office one man does another , when he tells him the manner of his being pleased . " - STEELE . NEW - YORK : WILEY AND PUTNAM , 161. BROADWAY . 1845 . 6 STEREOTYPED BY G. M DAVISON & CO . , LECTURES.
... HIS SON . " It is a very good office one man does another , when he tells him the manner of his being pleased . " - STEELE . NEW - YORK : WILEY AND PUTNAM , 161. BROADWAY . 1845 . 6 STEREOTYPED BY G. M DAVISON & CO . , LECTURES.
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... manner anything we must not think of makes us laugh , by its coming upon us by stealth and unawares , and from the very efforts we make to exclude it . A secret , a loose word , a wanton jest , makes people laugh . Aretine laughed ...
... manner anything we must not think of makes us laugh , by its coming upon us by stealth and unawares , and from the very efforts we make to exclude it . A secret , a loose word , a wanton jest , makes people laugh . Aretine laughed ...
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... manners of the East which they describe , carry the principle of callous indifference in a jest as far as it can go . The serious and mar- vellous stories in that work , which have been so much admired and so greedily read , appear to ...
... manners of the East which they describe , carry the principle of callous indifference in a jest as far as it can go . The serious and mar- vellous stories in that work , which have been so much admired and so greedily read , appear to ...
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... , " and " Whoop jug , I know when the horse follows the cart , " are a running commentary of trite truisms , pointing out the extreme folly of the infatuated old monarch , and in a manner reconciling 24 [ LECTURE I. ON WIT AND HUMOUR .
... , " and " Whoop jug , I know when the horse follows the cart , " are a running commentary of trite truisms , pointing out the extreme folly of the infatuated old monarch , and in a manner reconciling 24 [ LECTURE I. ON WIT AND HUMOUR .
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... manner . In this sense Æsop was the greatest wit and moralist that ever lived . Ape and slave , he looked askance at human nature , and beheld its weaknesses and errors transferred to another species . Vice and virtue were to him as ...
... manner . In this sense Æsop was the greatest wit and moralist that ever lived . Ape and slave , he looked askance at human nature , and beheld its weaknesses and errors transferred to another species . Vice and virtue were to him as ...
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