Lectures on the English Comic WritersJ.M. Dent & Sons, Limited, 1930 - Počet stran: 340 |
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... taken from the Duchess of Newcastle , is the best of his plays , and the origin of the Busy Body . Otway's comedies do no sort of credit to him : on the contrary , they are as desperate as his fortunes . The Duke of Buckingham's famous ...
... taken from the Duchess of Newcastle , is the best of his plays , and the origin of the Busy Body . Otway's comedies do no sort of credit to him : on the contrary , they are as desperate as his fortunes . The Duke of Buckingham's famous ...
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... taken for granted that they must be amiable and interes- ting , in the first instance , and like other things that are taken for granted , is but indifferently , or indeed cannot be made out at all in the sequel . To put it to the proof ...
... taken for granted that they must be amiable and interes- ting , in the first instance , and like other things that are taken for granted , is but indifferently , or indeed cannot be made out at all in the sequel . To put it to the proof ...
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... taken refuge in the petty provincial towns , or in old baronial castles in the North of Scotland , where it is still ... taken a pleasant revenge on their masters and mistresses without intending it ; but where the example of sordid ...
... taken refuge in the petty provincial towns , or in old baronial castles in the North of Scotland , where it is still ... taken a pleasant revenge on their masters and mistresses without intending it ; but where the example of sordid ...
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