Lectures on the English Comic WritersJ. Templeman, 1841 - 392 sivua |
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... character or situation . The acci- dental contradiction between our expectations and the event can hardly be said , however , to amount to the ludicrous ; it is merely laughable . The ludicrous is where there is the same contradiction ...
... character or situation . The acci- dental contradiction between our expectations and the event can hardly be said , however , to amount to the ludicrous ; it is merely laughable . The ludicrous is where there is the same contradiction ...
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... character , as we see it very finely exemplified in Sancho Panza and Don Quixote . The proverbial phlegm and the ... character strengthens the sense of the ludicrous . Keeping in comic character is consistency in absurdity ; a determined ...
... character , as we see it very finely exemplified in Sancho Panza and Don Quixote . The proverbial phlegm and the ... character strengthens the sense of the ludicrous . Keeping in comic character is consistency in absurdity ; a determined ...
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... character of being " justly called the Silent , " is a consummation of the jest , though , if it had really taken place , it would have been carrying the joke too far . There are a thou- sand instances of the same sort in the Thousand ...
... character of being " justly called the Silent , " is a consummation of the jest , though , if it had really taken place , it would have been carrying the joke too far . There are a thou- sand instances of the same sort in the Thousand ...
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... character , and in the happy exposure of the ludicrous con- tradiction between the pretext and the practice ; between their lenity towards their own vices , and their severity to those of others . The same principle of nice distinction ...
... character , and in the happy exposure of the ludicrous con- tradiction between the pretext and the practice ; between their lenity towards their own vices , and their severity to those of others . The same principle of nice distinction ...
Sivu 49
... character as a professed wit the one is always contriving something to laugh at , the other is always laughing at nothing . An excess of levity is as imperti- nent as an excess of gravity . A character of this sort is well personified ...
... character as a professed wit the one is always contriving something to laugh at , the other is always laughing at nothing . An excess of levity is as imperti- nent as an excess of gravity . A character of this sort is well personified ...
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