Lectures on the English Comic WritersDoubleday, 1960 - 239 oldal |
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20. oldal
... stories in that work , which have been so much admired and so greedily read , appear to me monstrous and abortive ... story of Amine and her three sisters , whom she led by her side as a leash of hounds , and of the goul who nibbled ...
... stories in that work , which have been so much admired and so greedily read , appear to me monstrous and abortive ... story of Amine and her three sisters , whom she led by her side as a leash of hounds , and of the goul who nibbled ...
91. oldal
... story good for any thing ; and his characters are good for very little . They are too low and mechanical , or too much one thing , personifications , as it were , of nicknames , and bugbears of popular prejudice and vulgar cant ...
... story good for any thing ; and his characters are good for very little . They are too low and mechanical , or too much one thing , personifications , as it were , of nicknames , and bugbears of popular prejudice and vulgar cant ...
159. oldal
... story of the countryman whom Don Quixote and Sancho met in their doubtful search after Dul- cinea , driving his mules to plough at break of day , and “ sing- ing the ancient ballad of Ronscevalles ! " The episodes , which are frequently ...
... story of the countryman whom Don Quixote and Sancho met in their doubtful search after Dul- cinea , driving his mules to plough at break of day , and “ sing- ing the ancient ballad of Ronscevalles ! " The episodes , which are frequently ...
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