Toaster's Handbook: Jokes, Stories, and QuotationsClara Elizabeth Fanning, Halsey William Wilson H.W. Wilson Company, 1916 - 483 pages |
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Page v
... laughter and tears come very close together . At the difference between things as they are and as they ought to be we laugh , or we weep ; it would depend , it seems , on the point of view , or the temperament . And if , as Horace ...
... laughter and tears come very close together . At the difference between things as they are and as they ought to be we laugh , or we weep ; it would depend , it seems , on the point of view , or the temperament . And if , as Horace ...
Page vii
... laughter . Con- sider Hobbes : " The passion of laughter is nothing SENSE OF HUMOR vii.
... laughter . Con- sider Hobbes : " The passion of laughter is nothing SENSE OF HUMOR vii.
Page viii
... laugh . " But stay ! Suppose it does not excite the laugh expected ? What of the joke that misses fire ? Shall a joke be judged by its intent or by its consequences ? Is a joke that does not produce a laugh a joke at all ? Pragmatically ...
... laugh . " But stay ! Suppose it does not excite the laugh expected ? What of the joke that misses fire ? Shall a joke be judged by its intent or by its consequences ? Is a joke that does not produce a laugh a joke at all ? Pragmatically ...
Page ix
... laugh . " We hold them to be so - but there seems to be a suggestion that we may be wrong . Is it possible that the laugh is not the test of the joke ? Here is a question over which the philosophers may wrangle . Is there an Absolute in ...
... laugh . " We hold them to be so - but there seems to be a suggestion that we may be wrong . Is it possible that the laugh is not the test of the joke ? Here is a question over which the philosophers may wrangle . Is there an Absolute in ...
Page x
... laughter that greeted his mildly humorous remarks . He even stopped to apologize for the deficiencies of his English ... laugh for which they are unprepared . For a bit of current slang , however and whenever used , is always humorous ...
... laughter that greeted his mildly humorous remarks . He even stopped to apologize for the deficiencies of his English ... laugh for which they are unprepared . For a bit of current slang , however and whenever used , is always humorous ...
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