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... ridiculous , which is the highest degree of the laughable , is that which is contrary not only to custom but to sense and reason , or is a voluntary departure from what we have a right to expect from those who are conscious of absurdity ...
... ridiculous , which is the highest degree of the laughable , is that which is contrary not only to custom but to sense and reason , or is a voluntary departure from what we have a right to expect from those who are conscious of absurdity ...
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... ridiculous , and contemptible as possible . It is in this respect , chiefly , that it differs from the comedy of a later , and ( what is called ) a more refined period . Genteel comedy is the comedy of fashionable life , and of ...
... ridiculous , and contemptible as possible . It is in this respect , chiefly , that it differs from the comedy of a later , and ( what is called ) a more refined period . Genteel comedy is the comedy of fashionable life , and of ...
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... ridiculous there is but one step ; ' and this character would almost seem to prove , that there is but one step from the ridiculous to the sublime . - Lubin Log , however inimitable in itself , is itself an imitation of something ...
... ridiculous there is but one step ; ' and this character would almost seem to prove , that there is but one step from the ridiculous to the sublime . - Lubin Log , however inimitable in itself , is itself an imitation of something ...
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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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