Lectures on the English Comic WritersJ.M. Dent & Sons, Limited, 1930 - Počet stran: 340 |
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... refinement or vulgarity , are equally superficial and confined . The whole is a question of form , whether that form is adhered to or infringed upon . It is this circumstance which takes away dignity and interest from her story and ...
... refinement or vulgarity , are equally superficial and confined . The whole is a question of form , whether that form is adhered to or infringed upon . It is this circumstance which takes away dignity and interest from her story and ...
Strana 152
... refinement on the stage and in real life , marked on a graduated scale of human perfectibility , and have been hence led to imagine that the best of our old comedies were no better than the coarse jests of a set of country clowns - a ...
... refinement on the stage and in real life , marked on a graduated scale of human perfectibility , and have been hence led to imagine that the best of our old comedies were no better than the coarse jests of a set of country clowns - a ...
Strana 191
... refinement , the peculiarities of individuals and of classes wear out or lose their sharp , abrupt edges ; nay , a certain slowness and dulness of understanding is required to be struck with odd and unaccountable appearances , for which ...
... refinement , the peculiarities of individuals and of classes wear out or lose their sharp , abrupt edges ; nay , a certain slowness and dulness of understanding is required to be struck with odd and unaccountable appearances , for which ...
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