Lectures on the English Comic WritersJ.M. Dent & Sons, Limited, 1930 - Počet stran: 340 |
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... equally defective in plot , wit , and nature ; it is a wretched list of exits and entrances , and the whole business of the scene is taken up in the unaccountable seizure , and equally unaccountable escapes , of a number of persons from ...
... equally defective in plot , wit , and nature ; it is a wretched list of exits and entrances , and the whole business of the scene is taken up in the unaccountable seizure , and equally unaccountable escapes , of a number of persons from ...
Strana 241
... equally aim at . If money , is it for its own sake or the sake of other things ? Is it to hoard it or to spend it , on ourselves or others ? In all these points , we find the utmost diversity and contradiction both of feeling and ...
... equally aim at . If money , is it for its own sake or the sake of other things ? Is it to hoard it or to spend it , on ourselves or others ? In all these points , we find the utmost diversity and contradiction both of feeling and ...
Strana 328
... equally ; and , it is therefore pre- sumed , equally well . Any thing short of this sweeping conclusion is an invidious distinction ; and those who claim it for themselves or others are exclusionists in letters . Every one at least can ...
... equally ; and , it is therefore pre- sumed , equally well . Any thing short of this sweeping conclusion is an invidious distinction ; and those who claim it for themselves or others are exclusionists in letters . Every one at least can ...
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