Lectures on the English Comic WritersWiley and Putnam, 1845 - 222 sivua |
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... object also striking upon the mind more vividly in its loose unsettled state , and be- fore it has had time to recover and collect itself , causes that alternate excitement and relaxation , or irregular convulsive movement of the ...
... object also striking upon the mind more vividly in its loose unsettled state , and be- fore it has had time to recover and collect itself , causes that alternate excitement and relaxation , or irregular convulsive movement of the ...
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... object of ridicule . One rich source of the ludicrous is distress with which we cannot sympathise from its absurdity or insignificance . Women laugh at their lovers . We laugh at a damned author , in spite of our We teeth , and though ...
... object of ridicule . One rich source of the ludicrous is distress with which we cannot sympathise from its absurdity or insignificance . Women laugh at their lovers . We laugh at a damned author , in spite of our We teeth , and though ...
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... objects , as to make the little look less , the mean more light and worthless ; or to divert our admiration or wean our affections from that which is lofty and impressive , instead of producing a more intense admiration and exalted ...
... objects , as to make the little look less , the mean more light and worthless ; or to divert our admiration or wean our affections from that which is lofty and impressive , instead of producing a more intense admiration and exalted ...
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... objects which affect us more from surprise or contrast to the train of our ordinary and literal preconceptions , than from anything in the objects them- selves exciting our necessary sympathy or lasting hatred . The favourite employment ...
... objects which affect us more from surprise or contrast to the train of our ordinary and literal preconceptions , than from anything in the objects them- selves exciting our necessary sympathy or lasting hatred . The favourite employment ...
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... objects . " Do you see any thing ridiculous in this wig ? " said one of his brother judges to him . " Nothing but the head , " was the answer . Now here instantaneous ad- vantage was taken of the slight technical ambiguity in the con ...
... objects . " Do you see any thing ridiculous in this wig ? " said one of his brother judges to him . " Nothing but the head , " was the answer . Now here instantaneous ad- vantage was taken of the slight technical ambiguity in the con ...
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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