Lectures on the English Comic WritersJ.M. Dent & Sons, Limited, 1930 - 340 oldal |
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57. oldal
... whole business of the scene is taken up in the unaccountable seizure , and equally unaccountable escapes , of a number of persons from a band of robbers in the shape of goblins , who turn out to be noblemen and gentlemen in disguise ...
... whole business of the scene is taken up in the unaccountable seizure , and equally unaccountable escapes , of a number of persons from a band of robbers in the shape of goblins , who turn out to be noblemen and gentlemen in disguise ...
118. oldal
... whole had been given in on evidence by an eye - witness . This kind of high finishing from imagination is an anomaly in the history of human genius ; and , certainly , nothing so fine was ever produced by the same accumulation of minute ...
... whole had been given in on evidence by an eye - witness . This kind of high finishing from imagination is an anomaly in the history of human genius ; and , certainly , nothing so fine was ever produced by the same accumulation of minute ...
262. oldal
... whole world against you . B. I grant the prejudices are formidable ; and I should despair , did I not think the reasons even stronger . Besides , without altering the opinions of the whole world , I might be contented with the suffrages ...
... whole world against you . B. I grant the prejudices are formidable ; and I should despair , did I not think the reasons even stronger . Besides , without altering the opinions of the whole world , I might be contented with the suffrages ...
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