Lectures on the English Comic WritersJ.M. Dent & Sons, Limited, 1930 - Počet stran: 340 |
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... sense of the ludicrous . Keeping in comic character is consistency in absurdity ; a determined and laudable attachment to the incongruous and singular . The regularity completes the contra- diction ; for the number of instances of ...
... sense of the ludicrous . Keeping in comic character is consistency in absurdity ; a determined and laudable attachment to the incongruous and singular . The regularity completes the contra- diction ; for the number of instances of ...
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... sense ; for it can only expose to instantaneous contempt that which is condemned by public opinion , and is hostile to the common sense of mankind . Or to put it differently , it is the test of the quantity of truth that there is in our ...
... sense ; for it can only expose to instantaneous contempt that which is condemned by public opinion , and is hostile to the common sense of mankind . Or to put it differently , it is the test of the quantity of truth that there is in our ...
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... sense , of habit , of character , and passion , the serious and the comic , in a word , of nature , as it fell within his own observation , or came within the sphere of his actual experience ; but he had little power beyond that sphere ...
... sense , of habit , of character , and passion , the serious and the comic , in a word , of nature , as it fell within his own observation , or came within the sphere of his actual experience ; but he had little power beyond that sphere ...
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