Lectures on the English Comic Writers with Miscellaneous EssaysJ. M. Dent & sons, Limited, 1963 - Počet stran: 346 |
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... absurdity of which provokes our spleen or mirth , rather than any serious reflections on it . To explain the nature of laughter and tears , is to account for the condition of human life ; for it is in a manner compounded of these two ...
... absurdity of which provokes our spleen or mirth , rather than any serious reflections on it . To explain the nature of laughter and tears , is to account for the condition of human life ; for it is in a manner compounded of these two ...
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... absurdity and propriety in words , looks , and actions . Of these different kinds or degrees of the laughable , the first is the most shallow and short - lived ; for the instant the immediate surprise of a thing's merely happening one ...
... absurdity and propriety in words , looks , and actions . Of these different kinds or degrees of the laughable , the first is the most shallow and short - lived ; for the instant the immediate surprise of a thing's merely happening one ...
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... absurdity ; a determined and laudable attachment to the incongruous and singular . The regularity completes the contra- diction ; for the number of instances of deviation from the right line , branching out in all directions , shews the ...
... absurdity ; a determined and laudable attachment to the incongruous and singular . The regularity completes the contra- diction ; for the number of instances of deviation from the right line , branching out in all directions , shews the ...
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