Lectures on the English Comic WritersWiley and Putnam, 1845 - 222 pages |
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... spirits ; but the instant the change is not only sudden , but threatens serious consequences , or calls up the shape of danger , terror supersedes our disposition to mirth , and laughter gives place to tears . It is usual to play with 2 ...
... spirits ; but the instant the change is not only sudden , but threatens serious consequences , or calls up the shape of danger , terror supersedes our disposition to mirth , and laughter gives place to tears . It is usual to play with 2 ...
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... spirit between them . The consciousness , however it may arise , that there is something that we ought to look grave at , is almost always a signal for laughter outright : we can hardly keep our countenance at a sermon , a funeral , or ...
... spirit between them . The consciousness , however it may arise , that there is something that we ought to look grave at , is almost always a signal for laughter outright : we can hardly keep our countenance at a sermon , a funeral , or ...
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... spirit and invention ; and the more incredible the effrontery , the greater is the joke . There is nothing more powerfully humorous than what is called keeping in comic character , as we see it very finely exem- plified in Sancho Panza ...
... spirit and invention ; and the more incredible the effrontery , the greater is the joke . There is nothing more powerfully humorous than what is called keeping in comic character , as we see it very finely exem- plified in Sancho Panza ...
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... spirit , and reach of wit more than vulgar : it seeming to argue a rare quickness of parts , that one can fetch in remote conceits applicable ; a no- table skill that he can dextrously accommodate them to a pur- pose before him ...
... spirit , and reach of wit more than vulgar : it seeming to argue a rare quickness of parts , that one can fetch in remote conceits applicable ; a no- table skill that he can dextrously accommodate them to a pur- pose before him ...
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... spirit ; by provoking to such dispositions of spirit , in way of emulation of complaisance , and by seasoning matter , other- wise distasteful or insipid , with an unusual and thence grateful tang . " - Barrow's Works , Serm . 14 . I ...
... spirit ; by provoking to such dispositions of spirit , in way of emulation of complaisance , and by seasoning matter , other- wise distasteful or insipid , with an unusual and thence grateful tang . " - Barrow's Works , Serm . 14 . I ...
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