Essays: on the Nature and Immutability of Truth, in Opposition to Sophistry and Scepticism: On Poetry and Musick, as They Affect the Mind; on Laughter, and Ludicrous Composition; on the Utility of Classical Learning, 6 tomasHopkins & Earle, 1809 |
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... compared to many other things without raising laughter : but the picture described in the beginning of the epistle to the Pisoes , with a man's head , a horse's neck , feathers of different birds , limbs of different beasts , and the ...
... compared to many other things without raising laughter : but the picture described in the beginning of the epistle to the Pisoes , with a man's head , a horse's neck , feathers of different birds , limbs of different beasts , and the ...
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... compared , and the greater the contrast of congruity and un- suitableness . Persons who would pass for wits are apt af- fectedly to interlard their ordinary discourse with similitudes ; which , however , unless they are un- common , as ...
... compared , and the greater the contrast of congruity and un- suitableness . Persons who would pass for wits are apt af- fectedly to interlard their ordinary discourse with similitudes ; which , however , unless they are un- common , as ...
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... compared to an other mean object in such a way as to provoke laughter . In this case , as there is no opposition of meanness and dignity , it will be proper , in order to make the combination sufficiently incon- gruous , that the thing ...
... compared to an other mean object in such a way as to provoke laughter . In this case , as there is no opposition of meanness and dignity , it will be proper , in order to make the combination sufficiently incon- gruous , that the thing ...
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... compared to such as are mean , fri- volous , or vulgar . King Arthur , in the tragedy of Tom Thumb , hints at an analogy between two feelings , that were never before thought to have any thing in common . I feel a sudden pain within my ...
... compared to such as are mean , fri- volous , or vulgar . King Arthur , in the tragedy of Tom Thumb , hints at an analogy between two feelings , that were never before thought to have any thing in common . I feel a sudden pain within my ...
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... compared to such as are serious or great ; and that , first , when the serious object alluded to is mentioned in simple terms , without debasement or exag- Introduction to the Tale of a Tub . geration ; secondly , when it is purposely ...
... compared to such as are serious or great ; and that , first , when the serious object alluded to is mentioned in simple terms , without debasement or exag- Introduction to the Tale of a Tub . geration ; secondly , when it is purposely ...
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