Lectures on the English Comic Writers, and Fugitive WritingsDent, 1963 - 346 oldal |
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161. oldal
... wish to share his pleasure with the reader . I wish I could quote some of these theatrical sketches ; but the time presses . The latter part of his work is less entertaining when he becomes Manager , and gives us an exact statement of ...
... wish to share his pleasure with the reader . I wish I could quote some of these theatrical sketches ; but the time presses . The latter part of his work is less entertaining when he becomes Manager , and gives us an exact statement of ...
231. oldal
... wish to impress others with idle admiration . Mathematicians have been remarked for persons of strict probity and a conscientious and somewhat literal turn of mind.1 But are poets and romance - writers equally scrupulous and severe ...
... wish to impress others with idle admiration . Mathematicians have been remarked for persons of strict probity and a conscientious and somewhat literal turn of mind.1 But are poets and romance - writers equally scrupulous and severe ...
304. oldal
... wish is , sometimes , to see the one and read the other . Gray was mortified because he had not a hundred pounds to bid for a curious library ; and the Duchess of has immor- talized herself by her liberality on that occasion , and by ...
... wish is , sometimes , to see the one and read the other . Gray was mortified because he had not a hundred pounds to bid for a curious library ; and the Duchess of has immor- talized herself by her liberality on that occasion , and by ...
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A. C. Cawley absurdity admiration affectation amusing appearance beauty Beggar's Opera Ben Jonson better Brentford character circumstances comedy comic common Constance Garnett criticism delight Don Quixote Edited English Epicene equally ESSAYS eyes face fancy favourite feeling folly genius gentleman Gerald Bullett Gil Blas give grace Hazlitt heart hero Hogarth Hudibras human humour idea imagination insipid instance interest lady laugh live look Lord Lord Byron lover ludicrous main-chance manners means Millamant mind moral nature never novel object opinion ourselves pain passion person philosopher play pleasure POEMS poet poetry present pretensions principle Rake's Progress reason refinement ridiculous romance satire scene School for Scandal seems self-love sense sentiment Shakspeare shew sort spirit stage story style supposed sympathy Tartuffe Tatler thing thought Tom Jones Translated truth turn vanity vols whole words writers