Lectures on the English Comic WritersJ.M. Dent & Sons, Limited, 1930 - Počet stran: 340 |
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... play , are admirable satires , ( as good as Pope's characters of women , ) but not exactly in the spirit of comic dialogue . The strictures of Rousseau on this play , in his Letter to D'Alembert , are a fine specimen of the best ...
... play , are admirable satires , ( as good as Pope's characters of women , ) but not exactly in the spirit of comic dialogue . The strictures of Rousseau on this play , in his Letter to D'Alembert , are a fine specimen of the best ...
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... play itself for them . The Fox , or Volpone , is his best play . It is prolix and im- probable , but intense and powerful . It is written con amore . It is made up of cheats and dupes , and the author is at home among them . He shews ...
... play itself for them . The Fox , or Volpone , is his best play . It is prolix and im- probable , but intense and powerful . It is written con amore . It is made up of cheats and dupes , and the author is at home among them . He shews ...
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... play have very much the look and air ( but something more demure and significant ) of Sir Peter Lely's beauties . Harriet , the mistress of Dorimant , who ' tames his wild heart to her loving hand , ' is the flower of the piece . Her ...
... play have very much the look and air ( but something more demure and significant ) of Sir Peter Lely's beauties . Harriet , the mistress of Dorimant , who ' tames his wild heart to her loving hand , ' is the flower of the piece . Her ...
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