History of English Humour: With an Introduction Upon Ancient Humour, 1. sējumsHurst and Blackett, 1878 - 712 lappuses |
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1.–5. rezultāts no 34.
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... to warrant the expenditure of much time upon it , and there has always been a great tendency among learned men to underrate the emotional feelings of our nature . Thus it VOL . I. B comes to pass that a much larger amount of our.
... to warrant the expenditure of much time upon it , and there has always been a great tendency among learned men to underrate the emotional feelings of our nature . Thus it VOL . I. B comes to pass that a much larger amount of our.
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... and an element in our mental constitution - we call it humour , a term applied only to human beings and their productions ; and a man is called humorous as worthy of commendation . Both are in truth feelings - we might say one feeling - ...
... and an element in our mental constitution - we call it humour , a term applied only to human beings and their productions ; and a man is called humorous as worthy of commendation . Both are in truth feelings - we might say one feeling - ...
10. lappuse
With an Introduction Upon Ancient Humour Alfred Guy Kingan L'Estrange. truth feelings - we might say one feeling - and although we can conceive humour to exist apart from the ludicrous , and to be a power within us creating it , there is ...
With an Introduction Upon Ancient Humour Alfred Guy Kingan L'Estrange. truth feelings - we might say one feeling - and although we can conceive humour to exist apart from the ludicrous , and to be a power within us creating it , there is ...
12. lappuse
... feeling - that could only be acquired by philosophical investigation . Nor have we yet so far ascertained its character as to be able to form humorous fancies upon any fixed principle . We are guided by some sense of the ludicrous which ...
... feeling - that could only be acquired by philosophical investigation . Nor have we yet so far ascertained its character as to be able to form humorous fancies upon any fixed principle . We are guided by some sense of the ludicrous which ...
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... feeling is abnormal and imperfect , and known by a hollow sound . peculiar to itself . None of these kinds of laughter are primary , they are but imperfect reflections of our usual modes of expression , and , excepting such cases , we ...
... feeling is abnormal and imperfect , and known by a hollow sound . peculiar to itself . None of these kinds of laughter are primary , they are but imperfect reflections of our usual modes of expression , and , excepting such cases , we ...
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270. lappuse - What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid! Heard words that have been So nimble and so full of subtle flame As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life.
214. lappuse - And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say unto you, What mean ye by this service? That ye shall say, It is the sacrifice of the LORD'S passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he smote the Egyptians, and delivered our houses.
297. lappuse - Tis resolved, for Nature pleads that he Should only rule who most resembles me. Shadwell alone my perfect image bears, Mature in dulness from his tender years ; Shadwell alone of all my sons is he Who stands confirmed in full stupidity. The rest to some faint meaning make pretence, But Shadwell never deviates into sense.
276. lappuse - how the world wags: Tis but an hour ago since it was nine, And after one hour more 'twill be eleven; And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot; And thereby hangs a tale.
261. lappuse - Unto the general disposition ; As when some one peculiar quality Doth so possess a man, that it doth draw All his affects, his spirits, and his powers, In their confluctions, all to run one way, This may be truly said to be a humour.
36. lappuse - And Samson said, With the jawbone of an ass, heaps upon heaps, with the jaw of an ass have I slain a thousand men.
296. lappuse - Tis snip snap, Sir, as you say; but, methinks, not pleasant, nor to the purpose, for the Play does not go on. Bayes. Play does not go on ? I don't know what you mean: why, is not this part of the Play ? 60 Smi. Yes, but the Plot stands still. Bayes. Plot stand still! why, what a Devil is the Plot good for, but to bring in fine things ? Smi.
360. lappuse - Till you, the best Vitruvius, come at length, Our beauties equal, but excel our strength. Firm Doric pillars found your solid base ; The fair Corinthian crowns the higher space : Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.