Lectures on the English Comic WritersWiley and Putnam, 1845 - 222 sivua |
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... seems to give additional liveliness and gaiety to the animal spirits ; but the instant the change is not only sudden , but threatens serious consequences , or calls up the shape of danger , terror supersedes our disposition to mirth ...
... seems to give additional liveliness and gaiety to the animal spirits ; but the instant the change is not only sudden , but threatens serious consequences , or calls up the shape of danger , terror supersedes our disposition to mirth ...
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... seem in great extremity . It is hard to hinder children from laughing at a stammerer , at a negro , at a drunken man , or even at a mad- man . We laugh at mischief . We laugh at what we do not believe . We say that an argument or an ...
... seem in great extremity . It is hard to hinder children from laughing at a stammerer , at a negro , at a drunken man , or even at a mad- man . We laugh at mischief . We laugh at what we do not believe . We say that an argument or an ...
Sivu 8
... seems perfectly reconciled to it as a matter of course . So wit is often the more forcible and pointed for being dry and serious , for it then seems as if the speaker himself had no intention in it , and we were the first to find it out ...
... seems perfectly reconciled to it as a matter of course . So wit is often the more forcible and pointed for being dry and serious , for it then seems as if the speaker himself had no intention in it , and we were the first to find it out ...
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... seems , however , to have been included in the old well - known nickname of the Rump Parliament . Almost as happy an instance of the other kind of wit , which consists in sudden retorts , in turns upon an idea , and diverting the train ...
... seems , however , to have been included in the old well - known nickname of the Rump Parliament . Almost as happy an instance of the other kind of wit , which consists in sudden retorts , in turns upon an idea , and diverting the train ...
Sivu 23
... seems the same , or amounts to a momentary deception where you least expected it , viz . in things totally opposite ... seem insipid and absurd . The cavilling at , or in- vidiously pointing out , a few slips of the pen , will embitter ...
... seems the same , or amounts to a momentary deception where you least expected it , viz . in things totally opposite ... seem insipid and absurd . The cavilling at , or in- vidiously pointing out , a few slips of the pen , will embitter ...
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