Lectures on the English Comic WritersJ.M. Dent & Sons, Limited, 1930 - Počet stran: 340 |
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... fancy.— Mere wit , as opposed to reason or argument , consists in striking out some casual and partial coincidence which has nothing to do , or at least implies Lo necessary connection with the nature of the things , which are forced ...
... fancy.— Mere wit , as opposed to reason or argument , consists in striking out some casual and partial coincidence which has nothing to do , or at least implies Lo necessary connection with the nature of the things , which are forced ...
Strana 36
... fancy . The author lends occasion to his absurdity to shew itself as much as he pleases , devises antics for him which would not enter into his own head , makes him ' go to church in a galliard , and return home in a coranto ; ' adds ...
... fancy . The author lends occasion to his absurdity to shew itself as much as he pleases , devises antics for him which would not enter into his own head , makes him ' go to church in a galliard , and return home in a coranto ; ' adds ...
Strana 179
... Fancy as its shadow . The best men were always the best behaved . Jem Belcher , the Game Chicken ( before whom the Gas- man could not have lived ) were civil , silent men . So is Cribb , so is Tom Belcher , the most elegant of sparrers ...
... Fancy as its shadow . The best men were always the best behaved . Jem Belcher , the Game Chicken ( before whom the Gas- man could not have lived ) were civil , silent men . So is Cribb , so is Tom Belcher , the most elegant of sparrers ...
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