Excerpt from The Wisdom of Dickens Tears are close to laughter indeed they each come with the other. The other szde of humour is pathos and what one man sees as pathetic, another, differently endowed by nature, it strikes as humorous. Laughter-moving as Dickens is, he is also strong in compelling tears and like his humour, his pathos is non-intel lectual also. It smacks of vulgarity even, so true is it to the common life. I t is even melo dramatic and sets the teeth on edge of those who have become steeled in the courteous ...
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Excerpt from The Wisdom of Dickens Tears are close to laughter indeed they each come with the other. The other szde of humour is pathos and what one man sees as pathetic, another, differently endowed by nature, it strikes as humorous. Laughter-moving as Dickens is, he is also strong in compelling tears and like his humour, his pathos is non-intel lectual also. It smacks of vulgarity even, so true is it to the common life. I t is even melo dramatic and sets the teeth on edge of those who have become steeled in the courteous amenities of the higher social life. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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