Lectures on the English Comic WritersJ. Templeman, 1841 - 392 sivua |
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... person it is particularly fond of , and does not find that person there , its countenance suddenly falls , its lips begin to quiver , its cheek turns pale , its eye glistens , and it vents its little sorrow ( grown too big to be ...
... person it is particularly fond of , and does not find that person there , its countenance suddenly falls , its lips begin to quiver , its cheek turns pale , its eye glistens , and it vents its little sorrow ( grown too big to be ...
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... persons it is ever so fond of , and either misses them where it had made sure of finding them , or suddenly runs up against ... person concealed from assas- sins , is in no danger of betraying his situation by laughing . that alternate ...
... persons it is ever so fond of , and either misses them where it had made sure of finding them , or suddenly runs up against ... person concealed from assas- sins , is in no danger of betraying his situation by laughing . that alternate ...
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... person because they never saw him before . Any one dressed in the height of the fashion , or quite out of it , is equally an object of ridicule . One rich source of the ludicrous is distress with which we cannot sympathise from its ...
... person because they never saw him before . Any one dressed in the height of the fashion , or quite out of it , is equally an object of ridicule . One rich source of the ludicrous is distress with which we cannot sympathise from its ...
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... person means one thing , and another is aiming at something else , are another great source of comic humour , on the same principle of ambi- guity and contrast . There is a high - wrought instance of this in the dialogue between Aimwell ...
... person means one thing , and another is aiming at something else , are another great source of comic humour , on the same principle of ambi- guity and contrast . There is a high - wrought instance of this in the dialogue between Aimwell ...
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... person's charge from which he is perfectly free , shows spirit and inven- tion ; and the more incredible the effrontery , the greater is the joke . 6 There is nothing more powerfully humorous than what is called keeping in comic ...
... person's charge from which he is perfectly free , shows spirit and inven- tion ; and the more incredible the effrontery , the greater is the joke . 6 There is nothing more powerfully humorous than what is called keeping in comic ...
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