1. 1. Thomas Hobbes, ‘The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malesbury’ Vol. 4. edited by Sir W. Molesworth, [John Bohn London, 1840] P. 5.
   2. A. Schopenhauer, ‘The World as Will and Repesentation, Eng. translation by E.F.J. [Payne Indian Hills, Colorado, The Falcomis Wing] 1956. P. 76.
   3. W. Hazlitt, ‘Lectures on English Comic Writers’, [Russell & Russell, New York, 1969] P. 1.
   4.  Stephen Leacock, ‘Humour Its Theory and Technique’, [Dodd, Mead & Company, New York, 1935] P. 11.
   5. P. G. Wodehouse ‘A Century of Humour’, [Hutchinson, London, 1934] P. 13.
   6. F. L. Lucas, ‘Style’, [Cassell & Company, London, 1955] P. 39. 7. Jane Austen, ‘Emma’ [John Murray, London, 1815] P. 178.
   7. Mary Lascelles, ‘Jane Austen and Her Art’, [Oxford, London, 1939] P. 107.
   8. Jane Austen, ‘Northanger Abbey’, [John Murray, London, 1817] P. 13.
   9. Ibid., P. 200.
   10. Jane Austen, ‘Pride and Prejudice’, [T. Egerton, Whithall, London, 1813] PP. 57–58. 12. Jane Austen, ‘Mansfield Park’, [T. Egerton, Whithall, London, 1814], P. 345.
   11.  Jane Austen, ‘Sense and Sensibility’, [T. Egerton, Whithall, London, 1811], P. 42.
   12. Ibid., of (2) P. 5.
   13. Jane Austen, ‘Persuasion’, [John Murry, London, 1818], P. 55.