Lectures on the English Comic Writers with Miscellaneous EssaysJ. M. Dent & sons, Limited, 1963 - Počet stran: 346 |
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... called ) a more refined period . Genteel comedy is the comedy of fashionable life , and of artificial character and manners . The most pungent ridicule , is that which 13 directed to mortify vanity , and to expose affectation ; but ...
... called ) a more refined period . Genteel comedy is the comedy of fashionable life , and of artificial character and manners . The most pungent ridicule , is that which 13 directed to mortify vanity , and to expose affectation ; but ...
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... called our English Aristophanes , O'Keeffe might well be called our English Moliere . The scale of the modern writer 166 LECTURES ON THE COMIC WRITERS.
... called our English Aristophanes , O'Keeffe might well be called our English Moliere . The scale of the modern writer 166 LECTURES ON THE COMIC WRITERS.
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... called about him- and every time , ' he says , ' we called for bread , or beer , or whatever it might be , the waiter answered , " coming , gentlemen , coming ; and this delighted me more than all the rest ! It was about this time , as ...
... called about him- and every time , ' he says , ' we called for bread , or beer , or whatever it might be , the waiter answered , " coming , gentlemen , coming ; and this delighted me more than all the rest ! It was about this time , as ...
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