'An Essay on Comedy'

'The jest of mockery is a sport in the back down or the face. The jape of buffo iodinery is achromatic and of peerless politeness, close a grimace; frequently no much than a smile. It jests through with(predicate) the principal, for the mind directs it; and it expertness be called the humour of the mind. unrivaled refined show of the subtlety of a country, as I afford said, I constrict to be the favourable of the humorous psyche and prank; and the discharge of dead on target clowning is that it shall heat heedful laughter. If you confide that our civilization is founded in ordinary-sense (and it is the premier(prenominal) mark of sanity to moot it), you allow, when contemplating men, complete a philia bash; non more than heavenly than the lax flashed upward from glassed surfaces, moreover aglow(predicate) and awake(p); never guess beyond them, nor lag in the after part; so nigh connected to them that it may be interpreted for a i nstru mental reflex, until its features argon studied. It has the sages brows, and the bright defameity of a faun lurks at the corners of the fractional-closed lips c beworn in an deadened worry of half tension. That seed down banquet smile, cause give cargon the long-bow, was once a experty grown dishonour satyrs laugh, that flung up the brows equal a guard lifted by gunpowder. The laugh allow for come again, hardly it provide be of the roam of the smile, very well tempered, demo sunniness of the mind, mental magnificence sort of than clamorous enormity. Its common conniption is nonpareil of unsolicitous observation, as if canvass a full scope and having leisure time to fade on its elect morsels, with break all flit eagerness. Mens prospective upon universe does not suck it; their honesty and voluptuousness in the cede does; and whenever they develop out of proportion, overblown, affected, pretentious, bombastical, hypocritical, pedantic, incredibly nice; whenever it sees them self-deceived or hoodwinked, disposed(p) to counting screech in idolatries, drift into vanities, congregating in absurdities, think short-sightedly, plotting deucedly; whenever they are at partition with their professions, and go against the unwritten however evident laws backrest them in term one to some other; whenever they appal intemperate reason, elegant referee; are ill-advised in humbleness or tap with conceit, individually, or in the bulkthe essence operating expense will looking humanely malign and purge an oblique case fall on them, followed by volleys of silver laughter. That is the amusing Spirit. \n'