Lectures on the English Comic WritersDoubleday, 1960 - 239 oldal |
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104. oldal
... Lady Pliant , and my Lord and Lady Froth , are also scarcely credible in the extravagant insipidity and romantic vein of their follies , in which they are notably seconded by the lively Mr. Brisk and " dying Ned Careless . " The Way of ...
... Lady Pliant , and my Lord and Lady Froth , are also scarcely credible in the extravagant insipidity and romantic vein of their follies , in which they are notably seconded by the lively Mr. Brisk and " dying Ned Careless . " The Way of ...
119. oldal
... lady , which the author would have her to be . Lady Grace is so far better ; she is what she pretends to be , merely sober and insipid . - Vanbrugh's forte was not the sentimental or di- dactic ; his genius flags and grows dull when it ...
... lady , which the author would have her to be . Lady Grace is so far better ; she is what she pretends to be , merely sober and insipid . - Vanbrugh's forte was not the sentimental or di- dactic ; his genius flags and grows dull when it ...
121. oldal
... Lady Lurewell , in the Trip to the Jubilee . She by no means makes good Mr. Burke's courtly and chivalrous observation , that the evil of vice consists principally in its want of refinement ; and one benefit of the dramatic exhibition ...
... Lady Lurewell , in the Trip to the Jubilee . She by no means makes good Mr. Burke's courtly and chivalrous observation , that the evil of vice consists principally in its want of refinement ; and one benefit of the dramatic exhibition ...
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