Lectures on the English Comic WritersJ. Templeman, 1841 - 392 sivua |
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... striking thing in it , the ludicrous prevails over the pathetic , and we receive pleasure instead of pain from the farce of life which is played before us , and which discomposes our gravity as often as it fails to move our anger or our ...
... striking thing in it , the ludicrous prevails over the pathetic , and we receive pleasure instead of pain from the farce of life which is played before us , and which discomposes our gravity as often as it fails to move our anger or our ...
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... striking upon the mind more vividly in its loose unsettled state , and before it has had time to recover and collect itself , causes * A child that has hid itself out of the way in sport , is under a great temptation to laugh at the ...
... striking upon the mind more vividly in its loose unsettled state , and before it has had time to recover and collect itself , causes * A child that has hid itself out of the way in sport , is under a great temptation to laugh at the ...
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... trifles , 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.
... trifles , 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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... striking point of view . Wit , as distinguished from poetry , is the ima- gination or fancy inverted and so applied to given objects , as to make the little look less , the mean more light and worthless ; or to divert our admiration or ...
... striking point of view . Wit , as distinguished from poetry , is the ima- gination or fancy inverted and so applied to given objects , as to make the little look less , the mean more light and worthless ; or to divert our admiration or ...
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William Hazlitt. and striking exposition of those evanescent and glancing impressions of objects which affect us more from surprise or contrast to the train of our ordinary and literal preconceptions , than from anything in the objects ...
William Hazlitt. and striking exposition of those evanescent and glancing impressions of objects which affect us more from surprise or contrast to the train of our ordinary and literal preconceptions , than from anything in the objects ...
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