Lectures on the English Comic WritersDoubleday, 1960 - 239 oldal |
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49. oldal
... comedy of a later , and ( what is called ) a more refined period . Genteel comedy is the comedy of fashionable life , and of artificial character and manners . The most pungent ridicule , is that which is directed to mortify vanity ...
... comedy of a later , and ( what is called ) a more refined period . Genteel comedy is the comedy of fashionable life , and of artificial character and manners . The most pungent ridicule , is that which is directed to mortify vanity ...
51. oldal
... comedy exists only in towns , and crowds of borrowed characters , who copy others as the satirist copies them , and who are only seen to be despised . " All beyond Hyde Park is a desart to it : " while there the pastoral and poetic comedy ...
... comedy exists only in towns , and crowds of borrowed characters , who copy others as the satirist copies them , and who are only seen to be despised . " All beyond Hyde Park is a desart to it : " while there the pastoral and poetic comedy ...
53. oldal
... comedy , has so many lovers , that she surfeits on admiration , till it becomes indifferent to her ; so many rivals , that she is forced to put on a thousand airs of languid affecta- tion to mortify and vex them more ; so many offers ...
... comedy , has so many lovers , that she surfeits on admiration , till it becomes indifferent to her ; so many rivals , that she is forced to put on a thousand airs of languid affecta- tion to mortify and vex them more ; so many offers ...
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