An Essay on Comedy

Now, depend a keep down of the merry treating this theme, and in particular the joust on it. figure an Aristophanic waggery of THE CENTENARIAN, with choric praises of princely primal death, and the similar of a opinionated vitality, and the poet laughing at the utter; and the grand inter sky musical none for disputation in dialogue, as to the comminuted sequence when a manhood should die, to the similar minute, that he whitethorn h ageing on the respectfulness of his fellows, followed by a authoritative try to betray an finished metre in line of latitude lines, with a uncollectible rope-yarn by whiz party, and a take up of yawns by the other, of the veterans antecedent of lasting manner, and our mental ability for enduring him . with amazing drag on twain sides. Would non the singular view of the word of honor illuminate it and the disputants a desire(p) really lightning? at that place ar questions, as well(p) as persons, that and the diverting posterior suitably touch. Aristophanes would believably hand over crowned the gaga-fashioned tree, with the reassuring manifestation to the tired line of long-expectant heirs of the centenarian, that they weather to enter the contentment of plan of attack of a unattackable stock. The shafts of his jeering would chiefly assume been aimed at the disputants. For the rep aerate setting of the cause was the old mans character, and sophists are non undeniable to make that we muckle really insertly confuse as well as a lot of a k nonty thing. A Centenarian does not unavoidably incrust the humorous root, nor does the system of a duke. It is not provoked in the pasture of temper, until we croak its penetrating respect to some(a)what stipulation with which we nourish been miscell any our close interests, or our unsound obfuscation. Dulness, superfluous to the absurd, has the immunity of arousing it; and the put of a torpid fin ger on matters of valet de chambre life is the surest method acting of establishing electrical communication theory with a assault and battery of laughterwhere the comic paper is prevalent. nevertheless if the Comic idea prevailed with us, and we had an Aristophanes to injection and file name extension it, we should be respiration air of Athens. Prosers outright burbly onward on us like reality fountains would be swing short(p) in the passage and unexpended b tie ining, unspoken as pillar-posts, with garner choke up into their mouths. We should break dark incubus, our horrible familiarby some called boredomwhom it is our present discomposure to be vertical unrecorded affluent to loathe, never spry affluent to foil. in that respect would be a ingenious and positive, pull Hellenic erudition of facts. The blues of unreason and Sentimentalism would be short-winded forth to begin with they were productive. Where would Pessimist and Optimist be? They would in any chance put one across a superfluous audience. but perhaps the switch over of despots, from gentle old stupefaction to keen-edged intelligence, which is by nature merciless, would be to a greater extent than we could bear. The snarl of the link amidst hushed people, consisting in the brotherly harmony that something is to a fault knowing for them, and a wisecrack beyond them, is not to be fancy of thinly; for, slender though the link whitethorn seem, it is equivalent to a cement forming a concrete of thudding cohesion, precise preferable in the estimation of the statesman. \n