Lectures on the English Comic WritersDoubleday, 1960 - 239 oldal |
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29. oldal
... sometimes points the sense . Mr. Grattan's wit or eloquence ( I don't know by what name to call it ) would be nothing without this accompaniment . Speaking of some ministers whom he did not like , he said , " Their only means of ...
... sometimes points the sense . Mr. Grattan's wit or eloquence ( I don't know by what name to call it ) would be nothing without this accompaniment . Speaking of some ministers whom he did not like , he said , " Their only means of ...
36. oldal
... sometimes it playeth in words and phrases , taking advantage from the ambiguity of their sense , or the affinity of their sound : sometimes it is wrapped in a dress of luminous expression ; sometimes it lurketh under an odd similitude ...
... sometimes it playeth in words and phrases , taking advantage from the ambiguity of their sense , or the affinity of their sound : sometimes it is wrapped in a dress of luminous expression ; sometimes it lurketh under an odd similitude ...
90. oldal
... sometimes too prolific , and spins his antithetical sentences out , one after another , till the reader , not the author , is wearied . He is , however , very seldom guilty of repetitions or wordy paraphrases of himself ; but he sometimes ...
... sometimes too prolific , and spins his antithetical sentences out , one after another , till the reader , not the author , is wearied . He is , however , very seldom guilty of repetitions or wordy paraphrases of himself ; but he sometimes ...
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