Lectures on the English Comic Writers with Miscellaneous EssaysJ. M. Dent & sons, Limited, 1963 - Počet stran: 346 |
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... refinement or vulgarity , are equally superficial and confined . The whole is a question of form , whether that form is adhered to or infringed upon . It is this circumstance which takes away dignity and interest from her story and ...
... refinement or vulgarity , are equally superficial and confined . The whole is a question of form , whether that form is adhered to or infringed upon . It is this circumstance which takes away dignity and interest from her story and ...
Strana 152
... refinement on the stage and in real life , marked on a graduated scale of human perfectibility , and have been hence led to imagine that the best of our old comedies were no better than the coarse jests of a set of country clowns - a ...
... refinement on the stage and in real life , marked on a graduated scale of human perfectibility , and have been hence led to imagine that the best of our old comedies were no better than the coarse jests of a set of country clowns - a ...
Strana 227
... refinement into helplessness and imbecility . Thus fools rush in where angels fear to tread ; ' and modest merit finds to its cost , that the bold hand and dauntless brow succeed where timidity and bashfulness are pushed aside ; that ...
... refinement into helplessness and imbecility . Thus fools rush in where angels fear to tread ; ' and modest merit finds to its cost , that the bold hand and dauntless brow succeed where timidity and bashfulness are pushed aside ; that ...
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