Toaster's Handbook: Jokes, Stories, and QuotationsHarold Workman Williams H.W. Wilson, 1916 - 483 pages |
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Page v
... laughter and tears come very close to- gether . 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 to- gether . 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 viii
... laugh ? Of the test for a sense of humor , it has already been said that it is the ability to see a joke . And , as ... laugh . " But stay ! Suppose it does not excite the laugh expected ? What of the joke that misses fire ? Shall a joke ...
... laugh ? Of the test for a sense of humor , it has already been said that it is the ability to see a joke . And , as ... laugh . " But stay ! Suppose it does not excite the laugh expected ? What of the joke that misses fire ? Shall a joke ...
Page ix
... laugh a joke at all ? Pragmatically con sidered it is not . Agnes Repplier , writing on Humor , speaks of " those beloved writers whom we hold to be humorists because they have made us laugh . " We hold them to be so - but there seems ...
... laugh a joke at all ? Pragmatically con sidered it is not . Agnes Repplier , writing on Humor , speaks of " those beloved writers whom we hold to be humorists because they have made us laugh . " We hold them to be so - but there seems ...
Page x
... laugh for the most part with , and not at our fellow creatures . " This , I think is something that our fellow creatures from other lands do not always comprehend . I listened once to a distinguished French- man as he addressed the ...
... laugh for the most part with , and not at our fellow creatures . " This , I think is something that our fellow creatures from other lands do not always comprehend . I listened once to a distinguished French- man as he addressed the ...
Page xi
... laugh over the same jokes - have between them many a “ grouse in the gun - room " story . But there must always be ... laughter and tears is SENSE OF HUMOR xi.
... laugh over the same jokes - have between them many a “ grouse in the gun - room " story . But there must always be ... laughter and tears is SENSE OF HUMOR xi.
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