Lectures on the English Comic WritersJ.M. Dent & Sons, Limited, 1930 - Počet stran: 340 |
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... person means one thing , and another is aiming at something else , are another great source of comic humour , on the same principle of ambiguity and contrast . There is a high - wrought instance of this in the dialogue between Aimwell ...
... person means one thing , and another is aiming at something else , are another great source of comic humour , on the same principle of ambiguity and contrast . There is a high - wrought instance of this in the dialogue between Aimwell ...
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... person . For instance , what they severally say on the subject of contemplating themselves in the glass , is a proof of this . Sir Fopling thinks a looking - glass in the room ' the best company in the world ; ' it is another self to ...
... person . For instance , what they severally say on the subject of contemplating themselves in the glass , is a proof of this . Sir Fopling thinks a looking - glass in the room ' the best company in the world ; ' it is another self to ...
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... person , his accomplishments , and his spirit , conquers all hearts . I should suppose that never sympathy more deep or sincere was excited than by the heroine of Richardson's romance , except by the calamities of real life . The links ...
... person , his accomplishments , and his spirit , conquers all hearts . I should suppose that never sympathy more deep or sincere was excited than by the heroine of Richardson's romance , except by the calamities of real life . The links ...
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