Lectures on the English Comic WritersJ. Templeman, 1841 - 392 sivua |
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... morality , when once disarmed of their power to do hurt , become sufficiently ludicrous . We laugh at that in others which is a serious matter to ourselves ; because our self - love is stronger than our sym- pathy , sooner takes the ...
... morality , when once disarmed of their power to do hurt , become sufficiently ludicrous . We laugh at that in others which is a serious matter to ourselves ; because our self - love is stronger than our sym- pathy , sooner takes the ...
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... is highly affecting as a moral lesson : it is one of the striking weaknesses and greatest happinesses of our nature . That which excites so lively and lasting an interest in itself , even though it should ON WIT AND HUMOUR . 15.
... is highly affecting as a moral lesson : it is one of the striking weaknesses and greatest happinesses of our nature . That which excites so lively and lasting an interest in itself , even though it should ON WIT AND HUMOUR . 15.
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... moral apho- risms and rules for the conduct of life , spark- ling with wit and fancy in the mode of expres- sion ... moral philosophy is natural history . He makes an ass bray wisdom , and a frog croak humanity . The store of moral truth ...
... moral apho- risms and rules for the conduct of life , spark- ling with wit and fancy in the mode of expres- sion ... moral philosophy is natural history . He makes an ass bray wisdom , and a frog croak humanity . The store of moral truth ...
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... moral consti- tution that refused to be roused to any keen agony of thought , and that was not very safely to be trifled with in lighter matters , though this last was allowed to pass off as the most pardon- able offence against the ...
... moral consti- tution that refused to be roused to any keen agony of thought , and that was not very safely to be trifled with in lighter matters , though this last was allowed to pass off as the most pardon- able offence against the ...
Sivu 62
... morals than many of the characters . Here are knaves and fools in abundance , of the meanest order , and stripped stark - naked . But genius , like charity , " covers a multitude of sins ; we pity as much as we despise them ; in spite ...
... morals than many of the characters . Here are knaves and fools in abundance , of the meanest order , and stripped stark - naked . But genius , like charity , " covers a multitude of sins ; we pity as much as we despise them ; in spite ...
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