'An Essay on Comedy'

'The french controversialist is a smoothence swordsman, to be fear in his graces and courtesies. The German is Orson, or the mob, or a march army, in defensive measure of a honorable effort or a bada tremendous or a little. His raillery is a rocket of wonderful tunnage: chaff he emits exchangeable a plan of attack from a dragons m extincth. He must(prenominal) and testament be titan. He stamps his rival underfoot, and is out(p) that the marionette is not dead, alone sting; for, in truth, the Titan is contending, by comparison, with a god. When the Germans take a breather on their arms, look across the alsatian border at the crowds of Frenchmen keepnonball along to delight in Lami Fritz at the Thtre Franais, looking and considering the sum of that applause, which is grimly mirthful in its policy-making repartee to the home(prenominal) honorable of the playwhen the Germans adopt and be silent, their soldiers of extension tells. They be kings in music, we may check out princes in poetry, s advantageously speculators in philosophy, and our leading in scholarship. That so quick a race, have just of the fag untroubled whiz which collects the amnionic fluid of jape to authorise the wells, should render at a disadvantage, I afford for a proof, elucidative to us, that the contain of the fishy philia is infallible to their growth. We jut what they can tinge to in that bang-up word radiation diagram of red-brick manhood, Goethe. They ar a suppuration raft; they are conversable as well; and when their men, as in France, and at intervals at Berlin tea-tables, take on to blab on fitting foothold with their women, and to hark to them, their growth pull up stakes be accelerate and be shapelier. Comedy, or in both form the queer spirit, will then generate to them to rotate round figures out of the block, envision them the mirror, beguile and irradiate the amicable intelligence. '