Lectures on the English Comic WritersJ.M. Dent & Sons, Limited, 1930 - 340 oldal |
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28. oldal
... common probability . plots of several of them could not be carried on for a moment with- out a perfect collusion between the parties to wink at contradictions , and act in defiance of the evidence of their senses . For instance , take ...
... common probability . plots of several of them could not be carried on for a moment with- out a perfect collusion between the parties to wink at contradictions , and act in defiance of the evidence of their senses . For instance , take ...
90. oldal
... common sense . - Secondly , That the stage cannot shock common decency , according to the notions that prevail of it in any age or country , because the exhibition is public . If the pulpit , for instance , had banished all vice and ...
... common sense . - Secondly , That the stage cannot shock common decency , according to the notions that prevail of it in any age or country , because the exhibition is public . If the pulpit , for instance , had banished all vice and ...
101. oldal
... common - place : neither ideas nor expressions are trite or vulgar because they are not quite new . They are valuable , and ought to be repeated , if they have not become quite common ; and Johnson's style both of reasoning and imagery ...
... common - place : neither ideas nor expressions are trite or vulgar because they are not quite new . They are valuable , and ought to be repeated , if they have not become quite common ; and Johnson's style both of reasoning and imagery ...
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