Lectures on the English Comic WritersJ. Templeman, 1841 - 392 sivua |
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... imagination by the disappointment or the discovery , in a matter of this indifference , will only vent itself in a fit of laughter . The transition here is not from one thing of importance to another , or from a state of indifference to ...
... imagination by the disappointment or the discovery , in a matter of this indifference , will only vent itself in a fit of laughter . The transition here is not from one thing of importance to another , or from a state of indifference to ...
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... imagination , still recurs mechanically , so that it is longer before we can seriously make up our minds to the unaccountable deviation from it . The third sort , or the ridiculous arising out of absurdity as well as improbability ...
... imagination , still recurs mechanically , so that it is longer before we can seriously make up our minds to the unaccountable deviation from it . The third sort , or the ridiculous arising out of absurdity as well as improbability ...
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... imagination of the sufferer . Malvolio's punishment and appre- hensions are as comic , from our knowing that they are not real , as Christopher Sly's drunken transformation and short - lived dream of happi- ness are for the like reason ...
... imagination of the sufferer . Malvolio's punishment and appre- hensions are as comic , from our knowing that they are not real , as Christopher Sly's drunken transformation and short - lived dream of happi- ness are for the like reason ...
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... imagination , except under severe restrictions , which are constantly broken through ; all the resources it supplies for intrigue and invention ; the bashfulness of the clownish lover , his looks of alarm and petrified astonishment ...
... imagination , except under severe restrictions , which are constantly broken through ; all the resources it supplies for intrigue and invention ; the bashfulness of the clownish lover , his looks of alarm and petrified astonishment ...
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... place from darkness to gorgeous light , and that brought from the lowest instance , and with associations that can only disturb and perplex the imagination in its conception of the real object it describes . There 26 ON WIT AND HUMOUR .
... place from darkness to gorgeous light , and that brought from the lowest instance , and with associations that can only disturb and perplex the imagination in its conception of the real object it describes . There 26 ON WIT AND HUMOUR .
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