Lectures on the English Comic Writers with Miscellaneous EssaysJ. M. Dent & sons, Limited, 1963 - Počet stran: 346 |
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... appearances . If we hold a mask before our face , and approach a child with this disguise on , it will at first , from the oddity and incongruity of the appearance , be inclined to laugh ; if we go nearer to it , steadily , and without ...
... appearances . If we hold a mask before our face , and approach a child with this disguise on , it will at first , from the oddity and incongruity of the appearance , be inclined to laugh ; if we go nearer to it , steadily , and without ...
Strana 82
... appearance in full feather . He blazes out and dazzles sober reason with ridiculous ostentation . Still I think this character is a copy from Etherege's Sir Fopling Flutter , and upon the whole , perhaps , Sir Fopling is the more ...
... appearance in full feather . He blazes out and dazzles sober reason with ridiculous ostentation . Still I think this character is a copy from Etherege's Sir Fopling Flutter , and upon the whole , perhaps , Sir Fopling is the more ...
Strana 182
... appearance , or like one of the figures in Dante's Inferno . Yet he fought on after this for several rounds , still striking the first desperate blow , and Neate standing on the defensive , and using the same cautious guard to the last ...
... appearance , or like one of the figures in Dante's Inferno . Yet he fought on after this for several rounds , still striking the first desperate blow , and Neate standing on the defensive , and using the same cautious guard to the last ...
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