Lectures on the English Comic Writers with Miscellaneous EssaysJ. M. Dent & sons, Limited, 1963 - 346 oldal |
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69. oldal
... taken from the Duchess of Newcastle , is the best of his plays , and the origin of the Busy Body . Otway's comedies do no sort of credit to him : on the contrary , they are as desperate as his fortunes . The Duke of Buckingham's famous ...
... taken from the Duchess of Newcastle , is the best of his plays , and the origin of the Busy Body . Otway's comedies do no sort of credit to him : on the contrary , they are as desperate as his fortunes . The Duke of Buckingham's famous ...
116. oldal
... taken from a newspaper or magazine ; and , like those in Gil Blas , might happen to a hundred other characters . He exhibits the ridiculous accidents and reverses to which human life is liable , not ' the stuff ' of which it is composed ...
... taken from a newspaper or magazine ; and , like those in Gil Blas , might happen to a hundred other characters . He exhibits the ridiculous accidents and reverses to which human life is liable , not ' the stuff ' of which it is composed ...
259. oldal
... taken in partners to the concern , as well as No. I. ? B. Yes ; and my concern for No. II . would be something very distinct from , and quite independent of , my original and hitherto ex- clusive concern for No. I. A. How very gross and ...
... taken in partners to the concern , as well as No. I. ? B. Yes ; and my concern for No. II . would be something very distinct from , and quite independent of , my original and hitherto ex- clusive concern for No. I. A. How very gross and ...
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