Lectures on the English Comic Writers, and Fugitive WritingsDent, 1963 - 346 oldal |
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45. oldal
... scene in which Brain - worm praises Master Stephen's leg . The folly here is insipid from its being seemingly carried to an excess , till we see it ; and then we laugh the more at it , the more incredible we thought it before ...
... scene in which Brain - worm praises Master Stephen's leg . The folly here is insipid from its being seemingly carried to an excess , till we see it ; and then we laugh the more at it , the more incredible we thought it before ...
79. oldal
... scene after scene , on the spur of the occasion , and from the immediate hold they take of his imagination at the moment , without any previous bias or ultimate purpose , much more powerfully , with more verve , and in a richer vein of ...
... scene after scene , on the spur of the occasion , and from the immediate hold they take of his imagination at the moment , without any previous bias or ultimate purpose , much more powerfully , with more verve , and in a richer vein of ...
119. oldal
... scene ; and hence presents you with a conventional and factitious nature , instead of that which is real . Dr. Johnson seems to have preferred this truth of reflection to the truth of nature , when he said that there was more knowledge ...
... scene ; and hence presents you with a conventional and factitious nature , instead of that which is real . Dr. Johnson seems to have preferred this truth of reflection to the truth of nature , when he said that there was more knowledge ...
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