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  • In 1598, Jonson produced his first great success, Every Man in his ... ===Every Man in His Humour=== Perhaps Jonson's most important ...
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  • well as a great musical facility, and a grotesque humour which was characteristic of Italian grand opera down to the death of Alessandro Scarlatti. Cavalli ...
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  • gel-like substance called the vitreous humour, with a focusing lens and ... into the first of two humors, the aqueous humour. Most of the light refraction ...
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  • trance, the dynamic with the static, happy jesting humour with bitter and glum satire".Konstantin L. Rudnitsky, Meyerhold the Director, Moscow, 1969. ...
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  • three times), the Stephen Leacock Medal of Humour, and the Gabrielle Léger ... *1960 Stephen Leacock Medal of Humour *1961 National Newspaper Award ...
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  • on the body and mind.Alex Rowell, Vintage Humour: the Islamic Wine Poetry ... * Rowell, Alex. Vintage Humour: The Islamic Wine Poetry of Abu Nawas ...
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  • :The cry of hosts ye humour ::(Ah, slowly!) toward the light:— :"Why brought ye us from bondage, ::Our loved Egyptian night?" ...
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  • * Anthologie De L'humour Noir, 1940 - Anthology of Black Humor (English Translation, Mark Polizzotti, 2001, ISBN 0872863212) * Arcane 17 ...
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  • mother, he added the Irish characteristics of humour, imagination and generosity. A lifelong friend has never known him to be out of temper or speak ...
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  • *Ryan, Allan J. The Trickster Shift: Humour and irony in contemporary native art. Univ of Washington, 1999. ISBN 0774807040 Category: Philosophy ...
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  • aspects of modern music (he had a strong sense of humour), the new music of Stravinsky and Schoenberg influenced, if not initially spurred, his work ...
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  • self-righteous mechanisms without charm or humour? "Is it not possible," asks Søren Kierkegaard, "that my activity as an objective ...
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  • whither they often come with the seamen. We always humour them, letting them go any whither as they will, and return to their country in any vessel bound ...
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  • Macaulay would say of Anne that "when in good humour, [she] was meekly stupid and, when in bad humour, was sulkily stupid." Anne's reign ...
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  • Salman Rushdie's 'defiant sense of humour' remains, son says] BBC News, August 14, 2022. Retrieved September 7, 2022. ...
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  • #039;s rare to see a film that bounces between humour and sentiment so seamlessly. And it is rarer still to see characters become etched in the memory ...
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  • a man of extraordinary intellect, learning and humour, great supporter of E European dissidents, and the kind of provocative, sometimes outrageous ...
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  • natural-targets-for-cartoons-but-philip-saw-humour-in-everything Royals 'natural targets' for cartoons, but Philip 'saw humour in everything ...
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  • names him on the cast lists for Every Man in His Humour (1598) and Sejanus, His Fall (1603). The absence of his name from the 1605 cast list for Jonson’s ...
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  • would have surpassed him. He had no wit, no humour, no vivacity, in our acceptance of these terms. The secret of his power is simple, for it lies essentially ...
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