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... laughter.1 The transition here is not from one thing of importance to another , or from a state of indifference to a ... laugh at the unconsciousness of others as to its situation . A person concealed from assassins , is in no danger of ...
... laughter.1 The transition here is not from one thing of importance to another , or from a state of indifference to a ... laugh at the unconsciousness of others as to its situation . A person concealed from assassins , is in no danger of ...
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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Selected Essays of William Hazlitt, 1778-1830 William Hazlitt,Geoffrey Keynes Geen voorbeeld beschikbaar - 2013 |
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abstract absurdity admiration appearance battle of Marengo beauty better character circumstances Coleridge common contempt conversation Correggio death delight effect equally expression face fancy favour favourite feeling French French Revolution friends genius Gil Blas give habit hand Hazlitt hear heart House of Commons Hudibras human humour idea imagination impression indifference instance interest Jeremy Taylor laugh learned less live look Lord Lord Byron manner means mind Molière nature never object observation once opinion ourselves pain painting Paradise Lost pass passion perhaps person play pleasure poet poetry prejudice pretensions pride principle prose reason Rembrandt seems sense sentiment Shakespear shew sort sound speak spirit spleen style supposed talk taste things thought tion Titian Tom Jones true truth turn understanding vanity virtue vulgar William Hazlitt Winterslow wish words write