Lectures on the English Comic WritersDoubleday, 1960 - 239 oldal |
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81. oldal
... equally defective in plot , wit , and nature ; it is a wretched list of exits and entrances , and the whole business of the scene is taken up in the unaccountable seizure , and equally unaccountable escapes , of a number of persons from ...
... equally defective in plot , wit , and nature ; it is a wretched list of exits and entrances , and the whole business of the scene is taken up in the unaccountable seizure , and equally unaccountable escapes , of a number of persons from ...
90. oldal
... equally remote from what common custom would suggest ?; and he startles you sometimes by an empty sound like a blow upon a drum - heads , by a pun upon one word , and by split- ting another in two at the end of a verse , with the same ...
... equally remote from what common custom would suggest ?; and he startles you sometimes by an empty sound like a blow upon a drum - heads , by a pun upon one word , and by split- ting another in two at the end of a verse , with the same ...
198. oldal
... equally remote from car- icature , and from mere still life . It of course happens in sub- jects taken from common life , that the painter can procure real models , and he can get them to sit as long as he pleases . Hence , in general ...
... equally remote from car- icature , and from mere still life . It of course happens in sub- jects taken from common life , that the painter can procure real models , and he can get them to sit as long as he pleases . Hence , in general ...
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