Lectures on the English Comic WritersDoubleday, 1960 - 239 oldal |
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71. oldal
... whole endeavour : but unluckily re- solving to show it in rhyme , instead of writing poetry , they only wrote verses , and very often such verses as stood the trial of the finger better than of the ear ; for the modulation was so ...
... whole endeavour : but unluckily re- solving to show it in rhyme , instead of writing poetry , they only wrote verses , and very often such verses as stood the trial of the finger better than of the ear ; for the modulation was so ...
127. oldal
... whole duty of man ; and seems fully convinced , that if this nuisance were abated , the whole world would be regulated according to the creed and the catechism . - This is a strange blindness and infatuation ! He forgets , in his ...
... whole duty of man ; and seems fully convinced , that if this nuisance were abated , the whole world would be regulated according to the creed and the catechism . - This is a strange blindness and infatuation ! He forgets , in his ...
177. oldal
... whole artifice of her fable consists in coming to no conclusion . Her ladies " stand so upon the order of their going , " that they do not go at all . They will not abate an ace of their punctilio in any circumstances , or on any ...
... whole artifice of her fable consists in coming to no conclusion . Her ladies " stand so upon the order of their going , " that they do not go at all . They will not abate an ace of their punctilio in any circumstances , or on any ...
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