Lectures on the English Comic Writers with Miscellaneous EssaysJ. M. Dent & sons, Limited, 1963 - Počet stran: 346 |
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... common sense ; for it can only expose to instantaneous contempt that which is condemned by public opinion , and is hostile to the common sense of mankind . Or to put it differently , it is the test of the quantity of truth that there is ...
... common sense ; for it can only expose to instantaneous contempt that which is condemned by public opinion , and is hostile to the common sense of mankind . Or to put it differently , it is the test of the quantity of truth that there is ...
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... common sense . - Secondly , That the stage cannot shock common decency , according to the notions that prevail of it in any age or country , because the exhibition is public . If the pulpit , for instance , had banished all vice and ...
... common sense . - Secondly , That the stage cannot shock common decency , according to the notions that prevail of it in any age or country , because the exhibition is public . If the pulpit , for instance , had banished all vice and ...
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... common - place : neither ideas nor expressions are trite or vulgar because they are not quite new . They are valuable , and ought to be repeated , if they have not become . quite common ; and Johnson's style both of reasoning and ...
... common - place : neither ideas nor expressions are trite or vulgar because they are not quite new . They are valuable , and ought to be repeated , if they have not become . quite common ; and Johnson's style both of reasoning and ...
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