Lectures on the English Comic WritersJ.M. Dent & Sons, Limited, 1930 - Počet stran: 340 |
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... laugh , when children , at the sudden removing of a pasteboard mask : we laugh , when grown up , more gravely at the tearing off the mask of deceit . We laugh at absurdity ; we laugh at deformity . We laugh at a bottle - nose in a ...
... laugh , when children , at the sudden removing of a pasteboard mask : we laugh , when grown up , more gravely at the tearing off the mask of deceit . We laugh at absurdity ; we laugh at deformity . We laugh at a bottle - nose in a ...
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... laughing at a stammerer , at a negro , at a drunken man , or even at a madman . We laugh at mischief . We laugh at what we do not believe . We say that an argument or an assertion that is very absurd , is quite ludicrous . We laugh to ...
... laughing at a stammerer , at a negro , at a drunken man , or even at a madman . We laugh at mischief . We laugh at what we do not believe . We say that an argument or an assertion that is very absurd , is quite ludicrous . We laugh to ...
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... laughter without a cause , nor any thing more troublesome than what are called laughing people . A professed laugher is as contemptible and tiresome a character as a professed wit : the one is always contriving something to laugh at ...
... laughter without a cause , nor any thing more troublesome than what are called laughing people . A professed laugher is as contemptible and tiresome a character as a professed wit : the one is always contriving something to laugh at ...
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