Lectures on the English Comic WritersJ. Templeman, 1841 - 392 sivua |
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... tion , and will make it scream out for help , even though it may be convinced that the whole is a trick at bottom . The alternation of tears and laughter , in this little episode in common life , depends almost entirely on the greater ...
... tion , and will make it scream out for help , even though it may be convinced that the whole is a trick at bottom . The alternation of tears and laughter , in this little episode in common life , depends almost entirely on the greater ...
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... tion . " They were talking of me , ” says Scrub , " for they laughed consumedly . " Lord Fop- pington's in sensibility to ridicule , and airs of ineffable self - conceit , are no less admirable ; and Joseph Surface's cant maxims of ...
... tion . " They were talking of me , ” says Scrub , " for they laughed consumedly . " Lord Fop- pington's in sensibility to ridicule , and airs of ineffable self - conceit , are no less admirable ; and Joseph Surface's cant maxims of ...
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... 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 character , as we see it very finely exemplified in Sancho Panza and Don Quixote ...
... 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 character , as we see it very finely exemplified in Sancho Panza and Don Quixote ...
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... tion of chances for a return to common sense , and in the end mounting up to an incredible and unaccountably ridiculous height , when we find our expectations as invariably baffled . The most curious problem of all , is this truth of ab ...
... tion of chances for a return to common sense , and in the end mounting up to an incredible and unaccountably ridiculous height , when we find our expectations as invariably baffled . The most curious problem of all , is this truth of ab ...
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... tion are in the story of Amine and her three sisters , whom she led by her side as a leash of hounds , and of the goul who nibbled grains of rice for her dinner , and preyed on human carcasses . In this condemnation of the serious parts ...
... tion are in the story of Amine and her three sisters , whom she led by her side as a leash of hounds , and of the goul who nibbled grains of rice for her dinner , and preyed on human carcasses . In this condemnation of the serious parts ...
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