English Humour

absurd Adams admire affection amusing artist Bertie better burlesque caricatures century Charles Chaplin clar'nets clowns comedian comedy comic characters comic figures companion contrived creatures cried Dan Leno delightful Dickens droll drollery Elizabethan England English humour Englishman eyes face Falstaff farce father feeling fellow fooling Foote friends funny genius George Leybourne grotesque happy Hazlitt heart high spirits humorist ideas Illyria imagination inner atmosphere J. C. SQUIRE Jane Austen jokes knew Lady Lamb laugh laughter Lewis Carroll literature live London look Malvolio Micawber mind Miss Munden never nonsense novelists novels once ourselves passion Pecksniff perhaps persons play poet poor Punch remark replied Samuel Foote satire scenes seen Seithenyn sense of humour Shakespeare Shandy Sir Toby sketches songs stage talk taste theatre things thought Todgers turn Uncle Toby verse W. W. Jacobs walk whole wife