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Then again, he is beset with foes to right and left, of a character unknown to the tragic and the lyric poet, or even to philosophers. We have in this world men whom Rabelais would call agelasts; that is to say, non-laughers; men who are in that respect as dead bodies, which if you prick them do not bleed.
and to laugh at everything is to have no appreciation of the Comic of Comedy. Neither of these distinct divisions of non-laughers and over-laughers would be entertained by reading The Rape of the Lock, or seeing a performance of Le Tartuffe. In relation to the stage, they have taken in our land the form and title of Puritan and Bacchanalian.
Sully deplores the increase of "agolasts" or "non-laughers" in our times in merry old England every one played games; and laughter, their natural accompaniment, abounded. Queen Elizabeth's maids of honor played tag with hilarity, but the spirit of play with full abandon seems taking its departure from our overworked, serious, and tons, age.
and to laugh at everything is to have no appreciation of the Comic of Comedy. Neither of these distinct divisions of non-laughers and over-laughers would be entertained by reading The Rape of the Lock, or seeing a performance of Le Tartuffe. In relation to the stage, they have taken in our land the form and title of Puritan and Bacchanalian.
Then again, he is beset with foes to right and left, of a character unknown to the tragic and the lyric poet, or even to philosophers. We have in this world men whom Rabelais would call agelasts; that is to say, non-laughers; men who are in that respect as dead bodies, which if you prick them do not bleed.
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