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... Humour , and Ridicule . SECT . I. Of wit . SECT . II . Of humour . SECT . III . Of ridicule . 25 4I 42 57 68 CHAP . III . The Doctrine of the preceding Chapter defended . 83 84 SECT . I. Ariftotle's account of the ridiculous explained ...
... Humour , and Ridicule . SECT . I. Of wit . SECT . II . Of humour . SECT . III . Of ridicule . 25 4I 42 57 68 CHAP . III . The Doctrine of the preceding Chapter defended . 83 84 SECT . I. Ariftotle's account of the ridiculous explained ...
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... humour , and ridicule . THIS article , concerning eloquence in its largest acceptation , I cannot properly dif mifs without making fome obfervations on ano- ther genus of oratory , in many things fimilar to the former , but which is ...
... humour , and ridicule . THIS article , concerning eloquence in its largest acceptation , I cannot properly dif mifs without making fome obfervations on ano- ther genus of oratory , in many things fimilar to the former , but which is ...
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... humour , ridicule , which are the effentials of the former , may often be fuccessfully admitted into public harangues . And , on the other hand , fublimity , pathos , vehemence , may fometimes enter the precincts of familiar converfe ...
... humour , ridicule , which are the effentials of the former , may often be fuccessfully admitted into public harangues . And , on the other hand , fublimity , pathos , vehemence , may fometimes enter the precincts of familiar converfe ...
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... humour . As wit is the painting , humour is the pathe- tic , in this inferior fphere of eloquence . The nature and efficacy of humour may be thus un- ravelled . A juft exhibition of any ardent or durable paffion , excited by fome ...
... humour . As wit is the painting , humour is the pathe- tic , in this inferior fphere of eloquence . The nature and efficacy of humour may be thus un- ravelled . A juft exhibition of any ardent or durable paffion , excited by fome ...
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... humour paints more fimply by direct imitation , wit more variously by illuftration and imagery . Of this kind of humour merely graphical , Ad- dison hath given us numberless examples in many of the cha- racters he hath fo finely drawn ...
... humour paints more fimply by direct imitation , wit more variously by illuftration and imagery . Of this kind of humour merely graphical , Ad- dison hath given us numberless examples in many of the cha- racters he hath fo finely drawn ...
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