Lectures on the English Comic WritersJ.M. Dent & Sons, Limited, 1930 - Počet stran: 340 |
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... seems to have been intended for the sake of contrast ; for the portrait of consum- mate , artful hypocrisy in Olivia , is , perhaps , rendered more striking by it . The indignation excited against this odious and pernicious quality by ...
... seems to have been intended for the sake of contrast ; for the portrait of consum- mate , artful hypocrisy in Olivia , is , perhaps , rendered more striking by it . The indignation excited against this odious and pernicious quality by ...
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... seems not unlikely , that most of the scenes actually took place at the foot of the Wrekin . The Inconstant is much superior to it . The romantic interest and impressive catastrophe of this play I thought had been borrowed from the more ...
... seems not unlikely , that most of the scenes actually took place at the foot of the Wrekin . The Inconstant is much superior to it . The romantic interest and impressive catastrophe of this play I thought had been borrowed from the more ...
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... seems to have no other feeling but a sickly sense of pain- shew the deepest insight into human nature , and into the effects of those refinements in depravity , by which it has been good - naturedly asserted , that ' vice loses half its ...
... seems to have no other feeling but a sickly sense of pain- shew the deepest insight into human nature , and into the effects of those refinements in depravity , by which it has been good - naturedly asserted , that ' vice loses half its ...
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