The Collected Works of William Hazlitt: Lectures on the English comic writers. A view of the English stage. Dramatic essays from 'The London magazine.'J. M. Dent & Company, 1903 |
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... sense and serious concern at defiance . The To understand or define the ludicrous , we must first know what the serious is . Now the serious is the habitual stress which the mind lays upon the expectation of a given order of events ...
... sense and serious concern at defiance . The To understand or define the ludicrous , we must first know what the serious is . Now the serious is the habitual stress which the mind lays upon the expectation of a given order of events ...
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... sense and reason , or is a voluntary departure from what we have a right to expect from those who are conscious of absurdity and propriety in words , looks , and actions . Of these different kinds or degrees of the laughable , the first ...
... sense and reason , or is a voluntary departure from what we have a right to expect from those who are conscious of absurdity and propriety in words , looks , and actions . Of these different kinds or degrees of the laughable , the first ...
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... sense of absurdity . It makes it come the fuller home upon us from his insensibility to it . His simplicity sets off the satire , and gives it a finer edge . It is a more extreme case still where the person is aware of being the object ...
... sense of absurdity . It makes it come the fuller home upon us from his insensibility to it . His simplicity sets off the satire , and gives it a finer edge . It is a more extreme case still where the person is aware of being the object ...
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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 of that absurdity by some sudden and unexpected likeness or opposition of one thing to another , which sets off the quality we laugh at or despise in a still more contemptible or striking point of view . Wit , as distinguished ...
... sense of that absurdity by some sudden and unexpected likeness or opposition of one thing to another , which sets off the quality we laugh at or despise in a still more contemptible or striking point of view . Wit , as distinguished ...
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Page 182 - O, here Will I set up my everlasting rest And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars From this world-wearied flesh.
Page 179 - I have liv'd long enough : my way of life Is fallen into the sear, the yellow leaf : And that which should accompany old age, As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have ; but, in their stead, Curses not loud, but deep, mouth-honour, breath, Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not.
Page 47 - Why so pale and wan, fond lover? Prithee, why so pale? Will, when looking well can't move her, Looking ill prevail? Prithee, why so pale?
Page 386 - Methinks I should know you and know this man; yet I am doubtful: for I am mainly ignorant what place this is, and all the skill I have remembers not these garments; nor I know not where I did lodge last night.
Page 48 - Her lips were red; and one was thin Compared to that was next her chin, Some bee had stung it newly: But, Dick, her eyes so guard her face, I durst no more upon them gaze Than on the sun in July.
Page 385 - Tom? whom the foul fiend hath led through fire and through flame, through ford and whirlpool, o'er bog and quagmire; that hath laid knives under his pillow, and halters in his pew...
Page 407 - Man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority, Plays such fantastic tricks before high Heaven As make the angels weep.
Page 239 - All school-days' friendship, childhood innocence ? We, Hermia, like two artificial gods, Have with our needles created both one flower, Both on one sampler, sitting on one cushion, Both warbling of one song, both in one key ; As if our hands, our sides...
Page 384 - No, you unnatural hags, I will have such revenges on you both, That all the world shall — I will do such things — What they are yet I know not ; but they shall be The terrors of the earth.
Page 15 - Wit lying most in the assemblage of Ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant Pictures, and agreeable Visions in the fancy...