Lectures on the English Comic WritersJ.M. Dent & Sons, Limited, 1930 - Počet stran: 340 |
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... scene after scene , on the spur of the occasion , and from the immediate hold they take of his imagination at the moment , without any previous bias or ultimate purpose , much more powerfully , with more verve , and in a richer vein of ...
... scene after scene , on the spur of the occasion , and from the immediate hold they take of his imagination at the moment , without any previous bias or ultimate purpose , much more powerfully , with more verve , and in a richer vein of ...
Strana 119
... scene ; and hence presents you with a conventional and factitious nature , instead of that which is real , Dr. Johnson seems to have preferred this truth of reflection to the truth of nature , when he said that there was more knowledge ...
... scene ; and hence presents you with a conventional and factitious nature , instead of that which is real , Dr. Johnson seems to have preferred this truth of reflection to the truth of nature , when he said that there was more knowledge ...
Strana 310
... scene is ended , and the lights are ready to be extinguished . But the fair face of things still shines on ; shall we be called away , before the curtain falls , or ere we have scarce had a glimpse of what is going on ? Like children ...
... scene is ended , and the lights are ready to be extinguished . But the fair face of things still shines on ; shall we be called away , before the curtain falls , or ere we have scarce had a glimpse of what is going on ? Like children ...
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