Lectures on the English Comic WritersJ. Templeman, 1841 - 392 sivua |
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... things are , and what they ought to be . We weep at what thwarts or exceeds our desires in serious matters : we laugh at what only disappoints our expectations in trifles . We shed tears from sympathy with real and necessary distress ...
... things are , and what they ought to be . We weep at what thwarts or exceeds our desires in serious matters : we laugh at what only disappoints our expectations in trifles . We shed tears from sympathy with real and necessary distress ...
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... 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 pity ...
... 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 pity ...
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... thing of importance to another , or from a state of indifference to a state of strong excitement ; but merely from one impression to another that we did not at all expect , and when we had expected just the contrary . The mind having ...
... thing of importance to another , or from a state of indifference to a state of strong excitement ; but merely from one impression to another that we did not at all expect , and when we had expected just the contrary . The mind having ...
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... the smallest circum- stance that interferes with the solemnity of the proceedings throws the whole place into an up- roar of laughter . People at the point of death often say smart things . Sir Thomas More jested with 12 ON WIT AND HUMOUR .
... the smallest circum- stance that interferes with the solemnity of the proceedings throws the whole place into an up- roar of laughter . People at the point of death often say smart things . Sir Thomas More jested with 12 ON WIT AND HUMOUR .
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William Hazlitt. often say smart things . Sir Thomas More jested with his executioner : Rabelais and Wycherley both died with a bon - mot in their mouths . Misunderstandings ( malentendus ) , where one person means one thing , and ...
William Hazlitt. often say smart things . Sir Thomas More jested with his executioner : Rabelais and Wycherley both died with a bon - mot in their mouths . Misunderstandings ( malentendus ) , where one person means one thing , and ...
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