Lectures on the English Comic Writers with Miscellaneous EssaysJ. M. Dent & sons, Limited, 1963 - Počet stran: 346 |
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... pleasure and idle gallantry . Half the business and gaiety of comedy turns upon this . Most of the adventures , difficulties , demurs , hair - breadth ' scapes , disguises , decep- tions , blunders , disappointments , successes ...
... pleasure and idle gallantry . Half the business and gaiety of comedy turns upon this . Most of the adventures , difficulties , demurs , hair - breadth ' scapes , disguises , decep- tions , blunders , disappointments , successes ...
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... pleasure ; or strictly , because certain objects have taken hold of our imagination , and we cannot , or will not , get rid of the impression : why should good - nature and generosity be the only feelings in which we will not allow a ...
... pleasure ; or strictly , because certain objects have taken hold of our imagination , and we cannot , or will not , get rid of the impression : why should good - nature and generosity be the only feelings in which we will not allow a ...
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... pleasure , you stay away altogether ; give up the promised luxury as a bad speculation ; sit sullenly at home , or bend your loitering feet in any other direction ; and putting up with the first loss , resolve never to be guilty of the ...
... pleasure , you stay away altogether ; give up the promised luxury as a bad speculation ; sit sullenly at home , or bend your loitering feet in any other direction ; and putting up with the first loss , resolve never to be guilty of the ...
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