Lectures on the English Comic WritersJ.M. Dent & Sons, Limited, 1930 - Počet stran: 340 |
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... existence when we see them . an example of the power of the stage in giving reality and interest to what otherwise would be without it , I might mention the scene in which Brain - worm praises Master Stephen's leg . The folly here is ...
... existence when we see them . an example of the power of the stage in giving reality and interest to what otherwise would be without it , I might mention the scene in which Brain - worm praises Master Stephen's leg . The folly here is ...
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... existence . Those who have had none of the cares of this life to harass and disturb them , have been obliged to have recourse to the hopes and fears of the next to enliven the prospect before them . Most of the methods for measuring the ...
... existence . Those who have had none of the cares of this life to harass and disturb them , have been obliged to have recourse to the hopes and fears of the next to enliven the prospect before them . Most of the methods for measuring the ...
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... existence ? In the Cathedral at Peterborough there is a monument to Mary , Queen of Scots , at which I used to gaze when a boy , while the events of the period , all that had happened since , passed in review before me . If all this ...
... existence ? In the Cathedral at Peterborough there is a monument to Mary , Queen of Scots , at which I used to gaze when a boy , while the events of the period , all that had happened since , passed in review before me . If all this ...
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