English Comic Writers
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comedyThe human contradiction…“On Wit and Humour” in English Comic Writers (1819), “Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.”
Read More…“On Wit and Humour” in English Comic Writers (1819), “Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.”
Read More- comedyThe role of wit
…then, in his essay “On Wit and Humour” are very much in the classic tradition of comic criticism:
Read More…then, in his essay “On Wit and Humour” are very much in the classic tradition of comic criticism:
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