Lectures on the English Comic WritersJ.M. Dent & Sons, Limited, 1930 - Počet stran: 340 |
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... genius for comedy as any one ; but I may venture to say , that he had not the same artificial models and regulated mass of fashionable absurdity or elegance to work upon . The superiority of Shakspeare's natural genius for comedy cannot ...
... genius for comedy as any one ; but I may venture to say , that he had not the same artificial models and regulated mass of fashionable absurdity or elegance to work upon . The superiority of Shakspeare's natural genius for comedy cannot ...
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... genius , as well as grace , and nature ; tried to do without , or else constantly to thwart her ; left nothing to her outward impress , ' or spontaneous impulses , but made a point of twisting and torturing almost every subject they ...
... genius , as well as grace , and nature ; tried to do without , or else constantly to thwart her ; left nothing to her outward impress , ' or spontaneous impulses , but made a point of twisting and torturing almost every subject they ...
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... genius ; and have all the parts of a good comedy in degree , without having any one prominent , or to excess . The character of Ranger , in the Suspicious Husband , is only a variation of those of Farquhar , of the same class as his Sir ...
... genius ; and have all the parts of a good comedy in degree , without having any one prominent , or to excess . The character of Ranger , in the Suspicious Husband , is only a variation of those of Farquhar , of the same class as his Sir ...
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