Lectures on the English Comic Writers with Miscellaneous EssaysJ. M. Dent & sons, Limited, 1963 - Počet stran: 346 |
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... characters , too rustic , abrupt , and cynical . He is a more disagreeable , but less tedious character than the husband of Agnes , and both seem , by all accounts , to have been rightly served . The character of Sparkish is quite new ...
... characters , too rustic , abrupt , and cynical . He is a more disagreeable , but less tedious character than the husband of Agnes , and both seem , by all accounts , to have been rightly served . The character of Sparkish is quite new ...
Strana 112
... character in Gil Blas . The author is a describer of manners , and not of character . He does not take the elements of human nature , and work them up into new combinations ( which is the excellence of Don Quixote ) ; nor trace the ...
... character in Gil Blas . The author is a describer of manners , and not of character . He does not take the elements of human nature , and work them up into new combinations ( which is the excellence of Don Quixote ) ; nor trace the ...
Strana 115
... character , and surprises you no less by what he leaves in the dark , ( hardly known to the persons themselves ) than by the unexpected discoveries he makes of the real traits and circumstances in a character with which , till then ...
... character , and surprises you no less by what he leaves in the dark , ( hardly known to the persons themselves ) than by the unexpected discoveries he makes of the real traits and circumstances in a character with which , till then ...
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