Selected Essays of William Hazlitt, 1778-1830Random House, 1930 - 807 pagina's |
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Pagina 411
... laughter from want of sympathy with that which is unreasonable and unnecessary , the absurdity of which provokes our spleen or mirth , rather than any serious reflections on it . To explain the nature of laughter and tears , is to ...
... laughter from want of sympathy with that which is unreasonable and unnecessary , the absurdity of which provokes our spleen or mirth , rather than any serious reflections on it . To explain the nature of laughter and tears , is to ...
Pagina 417
... laugh , you cannot give a reason why they should laugh ; -they must laugh of themselves , or not at all . As we laugh from a spon- taneous impulse , we laugh the more at any restraint upon this impulse . We laugh at a thing merely ...
... laugh , you cannot give a reason why they should laugh ; -they must laugh of themselves , or not at all . As we laugh from a spon- taneous impulse , we laugh the more at any restraint upon this impulse . We laugh at a thing merely ...
Pagina 442
... laughter without a cause , nor anything more troublesome than what are called laughing people . A professed laugher is as con- temptible and tiresome a character as a professed wit : the one is always contriving something to laugh at ...
... laughter without a cause , nor anything more troublesome than what are called laughing people . A professed laugher is as con- temptible and tiresome a character as a professed wit : the one is always contriving something to laugh at ...
Inhoudsopgave
On the Love of Life | 8 |
On Living to Onesself | 24 |
On Reading Old Books | 40 |
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