Lectures on the English Comic WritersWiley and Putnam, 1845 - 222 pages |
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... ideas , this alternate excitement and relaxation of the imagination , the object also striking upon the mind more vividly in its loose unsettled state , and be- fore it has had time to recover and collect itself , causes that alternate ...
... ideas , this alternate excitement and relaxation of the imagination , the object also striking upon the mind more vividly in its loose unsettled state , and be- fore it has had time to recover and collect itself , causes that alternate ...
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... ideas , as taking the mind unawares , throws it off its guard , startles it into a lively sense of pleasure , and leaves ... idea from another , or the jostling of one feel- ing against another . The first and most obvious cause of laugh ...
... ideas , as taking the mind unawares , throws it off its guard , startles it into a lively sense of pleasure , and leaves ... idea from another , or the jostling of one feel- ing against another . The first and most obvious cause of laugh ...
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... idea of his late disaster and present self - complacency struck him so powerfully , that , unable to resist the impulse , he flung himself back in the pulpit , and laughed till he could laugh no longer . I remem- ber reading a story in ...
... idea of his late disaster and present self - complacency struck him so powerfully , that , unable to resist the impulse , he flung himself back in the pulpit , and laughed till he could laugh no longer . I remem- ber reading a story in ...
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... idea seems , however , to have been included in the old well - known nickname of the Rump Parliament . Almost as happy an instance of the other kind of wit , which consists in sudden retorts , in turns upon an idea , and diverting the ...
... idea seems , however , to have been included in the old well - known nickname of the Rump Parliament . Almost as happy an instance of the other kind of wit , which consists in sudden retorts , in turns upon an idea , and diverting the ...
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... idea of poeti- cal immortality as could be thought of : it fixes the maximum of littleness and insignificance ; but ... ideas that seem the same , or where the secret contradiction is not sufficiently suspected , and is of a ludicrous ...
... idea of poeti- cal immortality as could be thought of : it fixes the maximum of littleness and insignificance ; but ... ideas that seem the same , or where the secret contradiction is not sufficiently suspected , and is of a ludicrous ...
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