Lectures on the English Comic WritersDoubleday, 1960 - 239 oldal |
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127. oldal
... common swearing had been an invention of the poets and stage - players . He cannot endure that the fine gentlemen ... common sense . -Secondly , That the stage cannot shock common decency , ac- cording to the notions that prevail of it ...
... common swearing had been an invention of the poets and stage - players . He cannot endure that the fine gentlemen ... common sense . -Secondly , That the stage cannot shock common decency , ac- cording to the notions that prevail of it ...
128. oldal
... common peccadillos of lying , swearing , intriguing , fight- ing , drinking , gaming , and other such obnoxious dramatic common - places , were once fairly got rid of in reality , neither the comic poet would be able to laugh at them on ...
... common peccadillos of lying , swearing , intriguing , fight- ing , drinking , gaming , and other such obnoxious dramatic common - places , were once fairly got rid of in reality , neither the comic poet would be able to laugh at them on ...
143. oldal
... common ; and Johnson's style both of reasoning and imagery holds the middle rank between startling novelty and vapid common- place . Johnson has as much originality of thinking as Addison ; but then he wants his familiarity of ...
... common ; and Johnson's style both of reasoning and imagery holds the middle rank between startling novelty and vapid common- place . Johnson has as much originality of thinking as Addison ; but then he wants his familiarity of ...
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