Lectures on the English Comic WritersWiley and Putnam, 1845 - 222 pages |
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... fancy . Humour , as it is shown in books , is an imitation of the natural or acquired ab- surdities of mankind , or of the ludicrous in accident , situation , and character ; wit is the illustrating and heightening the sense of that ...
... fancy . Humour , as it is shown in books , is an imitation of the natural or acquired ab- surdities of mankind , or of the ludicrous in accident , situation , and character ; wit is the illustrating and heightening the sense of that ...
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... fancy , while judgment and reason , according to him , lie the clean contrary way , in separat- ing and nicely distinguishing those wherein the smallest differ- ence is to be found . * * His words are- " If in having our ideas in the ...
... fancy , while judgment and reason , according to him , lie the clean contrary way , in separat- ing and nicely distinguishing those wherein the smallest differ- ence is to be found . * * His words are- " If in having our ideas in the ...
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... fancy ; judgment , on the contrary , lies quite on the other side , in separating carefully one from an- other ideas wherein can be found the least difference , thereby to avoid being misled by similitude , and by affinity to take one ...
... fancy ; judgment , on the contrary , lies quite on the other side , in separating carefully one from an- other ideas wherein can be found the least difference , thereby to avoid being misled by similitude , and by affinity to take one ...
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William Hazlitt. fancy . Mere wit , as opposed to reason or argument , consists in striking out some casual and partial coincidence which has no- thing to do , or at least implies no necessary connection with the nature of the things ...
William Hazlitt. fancy . Mere wit , as opposed to reason or argument , consists in striking out some casual and partial coincidence which has no- thing to do , or at least implies no necessary connection with the nature of the things ...
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... fancy , of legal acuteness in detecting the vari- able applications of words , and of a mind apt at perceiving the ludicrous in external objects . " Do you see any thing ridiculous in this wig ? " said one of his brother judges to him ...
... fancy , of legal acuteness in detecting the vari- able applications of words , and of a mind apt at perceiving the ludicrous in external objects . " Do you see any thing ridiculous in this wig ? " said one of his brother judges to him ...
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absurdity admiration affectation amusing appearance artificial beauty Beggar's Opera Ben Jonson better blank verse Boccaccio character Chaucer circumstances comedy comic common critics delight describes Don Quixote double entendre dramatic elegance equal excellence face fancy feeling flowers folly genius Gil Blas give grace heart Hogarth Hudibras human humour idea imagination imitation instance interest kind Lady language laugh light lively look Lord Byron lover ludicrous Lycidas Lyrical Ballads manners Milton mind moral Muse nature never objects painted passion person picture play pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope prose reader refinement ridiculous satire scene School for Scandal seems sense sentiment Shakspeare Shakspeare's sort soul Spenser spirit story style sweet Tartuffe Tatler thee things thou thought tion Tom Jones truth turn verse vice whole wild words Wordsworth writer