Lectures on the English Comic Writers, and Fugitive WritingsDent, 1963 - 346 oldal |
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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 ...
229. oldal
... common with the best , and are not the mere cyphers he had been led to consider them . From having under - rated , he comes to over- rate them . Having dreamt of no such thing , he is more struck with what he finds than perhaps it ...
... common with the best , and are not the mere cyphers he had been led to consider them . From having under - rated , he comes to over- rate them . Having dreamt of no such thing , he is more struck with what he finds than perhaps it ...
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