Lectures on the English Comic WritersDoubleday, 1960 - 239 oldal |
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... carrying the joke too far . There are a thousand instances of the same sort in the Thousand and One Nights , which are an inexhaustible mine of comic humour and invention , and which , from the manners of the East which they describe , ...
... carrying the joke too far . There are a thousand instances of the same sort in the Thousand and One Nights , which are an inexhaustible mine of comic humour and invention , and which , from the manners of the East which they describe , ...
49. oldal
William Hazlitt. i'th ' clout at twelve score ; and carried you a forehand shaft a fourteen and fourteen and a half , that it would have done a man's heart good to see . - How a score of ewes now ? SILENCE . Thereafter as they be : a ...
William Hazlitt. i'th ' clout at twelve score ; and carried you a forehand shaft a fourteen and fourteen and a half , that it would have done a man's heart good to see . - How a score of ewes now ? SILENCE . Thereafter as they be : a ...
93. oldal
... carried his private grudge too far into his general speculations . He even makes out the rebels to be cow- ards and well beaten , which does not accord with the history of the times . In an excess of zeal for church and state , he is ...
... carried his private grudge too far into his general speculations . He even makes out the rebels to be cow- ards and well beaten , which does not accord with the history of the times . In an excess of zeal for church and state , he is ...
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