Lectures on the English Comic WritersJ. Templeman, 1841 - 392 sivua |
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... reason , or is a volun- tary departure from what we have a right to expect from those who are conscious of absurdity and propriety in words , looks , and actions . Of these different kinds or degrees of the laughable , the first is the ...
... reason , or is a volun- tary departure from what we have a right to expect from those who are conscious of absurdity and propriety in words , looks , and actions . Of these different kinds or degrees of the laughable , the first is the ...
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... reason why they should laugh ; —they must laugh of themselves , or not at all . As we laugh from a spontaneous impulse , we laugh the more at any restraint upon this impulse . We laugh at a thing merely because we ought not . If we ...
... reason why they should laugh ; —they must laugh of themselves , or not at all . As we laugh from a spontaneous impulse , we laugh the more at any restraint upon this impulse . We laugh at a thing merely because we ought not . If we ...
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... reason and humanity . We cannot suppress the smile on the lip ; but the tear should also stand ready to start from the eye . The history of hobby - horses is equally instructive and delight- ful ; and after the pair I have just alluded ...
... reason and humanity . We cannot suppress the smile on the lip ; but the tear should also stand ready to start from the eye . The history of hobby - horses is equally instructive and delight- ful ; and after the pair I have just alluded ...
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... reason , according to him , lie the clean contrary way , in separating and nicely distin- guishing those wherein the smallest difference is to be found . * * His words are- " If in having our ideas in the memory ready at hand consists ...
... reason , according to him , lie the clean contrary way , in separating and nicely distin- guishing those wherein the smallest difference is to be found . * * His words are- " If in having our ideas in the memory ready at hand consists ...
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... reason , which is to be observed in one man above another . And hence , perhaps , may be given some reason of that common observation , that men who have a great deal of wit and prompt memories , have not always the clearest judgment or ...
... reason , which is to be observed in one man above another . And hence , perhaps , may be given some reason of that common observation , that men who have a great deal of wit and prompt memories , have not always the clearest judgment or ...
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absurdity admiration affectation amusing appearance beauty Ben Jonson Brass character comedy comic writers common Congreve critical delight Dick Don Quixote double entendre Dr Johnson dramatic dress elegance Epicene equally Essays excellence extravagance eyes face fancy farce feeling folly genius Gil Blas give grace Hazlitt heart Hogarth Hudibras human nature idea imagination imitation insipid instance interest invention Lady laugh lively look Lord lover ludicrous manners Millamant mind mistress Montaigne moral novel object observation original painted passion person piece play pleasure plot poet poetry PORTLAND STREET racters Rake's Progress reason refinement ridiculous romantic satire scene School for Scandal seems sense sentiment serious Serjeant Talfourd Shakspeare sort Spectator spirit stage story striking style Tartuffe Tatler TEMPLEMAN thee things thought tion Tom Jones truth turn vice vulgar whole wife WILLIAM HAZLITT words Wycherley