The Complete Works of William Hazlitt, Volume 6J. M. Dent and Sons, Limited, 1931 |
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Page 7
... extravagance that sets all common sense and serious concern at defiance . The To understand or define the ludicrous , we must first know what the serious is . Now the serious is the habitual stress which the mind lays upon the ...
... extravagance that sets all common sense and serious concern at defiance . The To understand or define the ludicrous , we must first know what the serious is . Now the serious is the habitual stress which the mind lays upon the ...
Page 11
... extravagance or folly , the natural improbability , as it were , increasing every time with the multiplication of chances for a return to common sense , and in the end mounting up to an incredible and unaccountably ridiculous height ...
... extravagance or folly , the natural improbability , as it were , increasing every time with the multiplication of chances for a return to common sense , and in the end mounting up to an incredible and unaccountably ridiculous height ...
Page 138
... extravagance of the other , so as to give to the productions of his pencil equal solidity and effect . For his faces go to the very verge of caricature , and yet never ( I believe in any single instance ) go beyond it : they take the ...
... extravagance of the other , so as to give to the productions of his pencil equal solidity and effect . For his faces go to the very verge of caricature , and yet never ( I believe in any single instance ) go beyond it : they take the ...
Contents
LECTURE I | 5 |
LECTURE II | 30 |
On Cowley Butler Suckling Etherege | 70 |
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