Lectures on the English Poets and the English Comic WritersWilliam Hazlitt, William Carew Hazlitt George Bell, 1906 - 454 páginas |
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... story that staggers our belief : and we are ready to split our sides with laughing at an extra- vagance that sets all common sense and serious concern at defiance . To understand or define the ludicrous , we must first know what the ...
... story that staggers our belief : and we are ready to split our sides with laughing at an extra- vagance that sets all common sense and serious concern at defiance . To understand or define the ludicrous , we must first know what the ...
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... story . Wicked- ness is often made a substitute for wit ; and in most of our good old comedies , the intrigue of the plot and the double meaning of the dialogue go hand - in - hand , and keep up the ball with wonderful spirit between ...
... story . Wicked- ness is often made a substitute for wit ; and in most of our good old comedies , the intrigue of the plot and the double meaning of the dialogue go hand - in - hand , and keep up the ball with wonderful spirit between ...
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... story in an odd number of the ' European Magazine , ' of an old gentleman who used to walk out every afternoon , with a gold - headed cane , in the fields opposite Baltimore House , which were then open , only with footpaths crossing ...
... story in an odd number of the ' European Magazine , ' of an old gentleman who used to walk out every afternoon , with a gold - headed cane , in the fields opposite Baltimore House , which were then open , only with footpaths crossing ...
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... stories of the Little Hunchback , who was choked with a bone , and the Barber of Bagdad and his seven brothers , —there is that of the tailor who was persecuted by the miller's wife , and who , after toiling all night in the mill , got ...
... stories of the Little Hunchback , who was choked with a bone , and the Barber of Bagdad and his seven brothers , —there is that of the tailor who was persecuted by the miller's wife , and who , after toiling all night in the mill , got ...
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... story of the Im- pertinent Barber himself , one of the seven , and worthy to be so ; his pertinacious , incredible ... stories in that work , which have been so much admired and so greedily read , appear to me monstrous and abortive ...
... story of the Im- pertinent Barber himself , one of the seven , and worthy to be so ; his pertinacious , incredible ... stories in that work , which have been so much admired and so greedily read , appear to me monstrous and abortive ...
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