Lectures on the English Comic WritersWiley and Putnam, 1845 - 222 oldal |
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31. oldal
... equal want of books and men . " There is a common French print , in which Molière is represented reading one of his plays in the presence of the celebrated Ninon de l'Enclos , to a circle of the wits and first men of his own time ...
... equal want of books and men . " There is a common French print , in which Molière is represented reading one of his plays in the presence of the celebrated Ninon de l'Enclos , to a circle of the wits and first men of his own time ...
33. oldal
... equal power with him over the stronger passions . For my own reading , I like Vanbrugh's City Wives ' Confederacy ' as well , or ( " not to speak it profanely " ) better than the ' Merry Wives of Windsor , ' and Congreve's Way of the ...
... equal power with him over the stronger passions . For my own reading , I like Vanbrugh's City Wives ' Confederacy ' as well , or ( " not to speak it profanely " ) better than the ' Merry Wives of Windsor , ' and Congreve's Way of the ...
34. oldal
... equal in wit and drollery to anything upon record . Falstaff alone is an instance which , if I would , I could not get over . " He is the leviathan of all the creatures of the author's comic genius , and tumbles about his unwieldy bulk ...
... equal in wit and drollery to anything upon record . Falstaff alone is an instance which , if I would , I could not get over . " He is the leviathan of all the creatures of the author's comic genius , and tumbles about his unwieldy bulk ...
41. oldal
... equal rank with herself , and but one love , to whom she in- nocently plights her hand and heart ; or if she had a thousand lovers , she would be the sole object of their adoration and burn- ing vows , without a rival . The heroine of ...
... equal rank with herself , and but one love , to whom she in- nocently plights her hand and heart ; or if she had a thousand lovers , she would be the sole object of their adoration and burn- ing vows , without a rival . The heroine of ...
52. oldal
... Equal with Solomon : * * * I will have all my beds blown up , not stuft : Down is too hard ; and then , mine oval room Fill'd with such pictures as Tiberius took From Elephantis , and dull Aretine But coldly imitated . Then my glasses ...
... Equal with Solomon : * * * I will have all my beds blown up , not stuft : Down is too hard ; and then , mine oval room Fill'd with such pictures as Tiberius took From Elephantis , and dull Aretine But coldly imitated . Then my glasses ...
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