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... 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 account for the condition of human life ; for it is in a manner compounded of these two ...
... 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 account for the condition of human life ; for it is in a manner compounded of these two ...
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... absurdity and propriety in words , looks , and actions . Of these different kinds or degrees of the laughable , the first is the most shallow and short - lived ; for the instant the immediate surprise of a thing's merely happening one ...
... absurdity and propriety in words , looks , and actions . Of these different kinds or degrees of the laughable , the first is the most shallow and short - lived ; for the instant the immediate surprise of a thing's merely happening one ...
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... absurdity ; a determined and laudable attachment to the incongruous and singular . The regularity completes the contra- diction ; for the number of instances of deviation from the right line , branching out in all directions , shews the ...
... absurdity ; a determined and laudable attachment to the incongruous and singular . The regularity completes the contra- diction ; for the number of instances of deviation from the right line , branching out in all directions , shews the ...
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| Title | The Complete Works of William Hazlitt, Volume 6 The Complete Works of William Hazlitt, Percival Presland Howe |
| Author | William Hazlitt |
| Editors | Percival Presland Howe, Alfred Rayney Waller, Arnold Glover |
| Compiled by | James Thornton |
| Publisher | J. M. Dent and Sons, Limited, 1931 |
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