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... true humor of the characters and the situations . Thus Walpole thought Tristram Shandy " a very insipid and tedious performance " with the humor " forever attempted and missed . " Other leading literary figures of the day were not all ...
... true humor of the characters and the situations . Thus Walpole thought Tristram Shandy " a very insipid and tedious performance " with the humor " forever attempted and missed . " Other leading literary figures of the day were not all ...
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... true genial humor dwelling in a mind that was coarse or callous . The essence of humor is sensibility , " he says , and " unless seasoned and purified by humor , sensibility is apt to run wild ; will readily corrupt into disease ...
... true genial humor dwelling in a mind that was coarse or callous . The essence of humor is sensibility , " he says , and " unless seasoned and purified by humor , sensibility is apt to run wild ; will readily corrupt into disease ...
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... true gentle- men always do . Even to get the laugh of the company at a strange table , perhaps you and I would not tell lies ; but then we are not true gentle- men . " He continues with an example of Sterne's deception of Mrs. Draper ...
... true gentle- men always do . Even to get the laugh of the company at a strange table , perhaps you and I would not tell lies ; but then we are not true gentle- men . " He continues with an example of Sterne's deception of Mrs. Draper ...
Contents
BECOMING A CLASSIC 176879 | 40 |
BEAUTIES AND BOWDLERIZATION 178092 | 61 |
BORROWED PLUMES 17931814 | 81 |
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