Lectures on the English Comic Writers: Delivered at the Surry InstitutionM. Carey and Son, 1819 - 343 oldal |
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52. oldal
... equal want of books and men . " There is a common French print , in which Moliere is represented reading one of his plays in the presence of the cele- brated Ninon de l'Enclos , to a circle of the wits and first men of his own time ...
... equal want of books and men . " There is a common French print , in which Moliere is represented reading one of his plays in the presence of the cele- brated Ninon de l'Enclos , to a circle of the wits and first men of his own time ...
56. oldal
... equal power with him over the stronger passions . For my own reading , I like Vanbrugh's City Wives ' Confederacy as well , or ( " not to speak it profanely " ) better than the Merry Wives of Windsor , and Congreve's Way of the World as ...
... equal power with him over the stronger passions . For my own reading , I like Vanbrugh's City Wives ' Confederacy as well , or ( " not to speak it profanely " ) better than the Merry Wives of Windsor , and Congreve's Way of the World as ...
57. oldal
... equal to the stern pride of Coriolanus , or which gives such an idea of the crumbling in pieces of the Roman grandeur , " like an unsubstantial pageant faded , " as the Antony ' and Cleopatra . But to match the best serious comedies ...
... equal to the stern pride of Coriolanus , or which gives such an idea of the crumbling in pieces of the Roman grandeur , " like an unsubstantial pageant faded , " as the Antony ' and Cleopatra . But to match the best serious comedies ...
69. oldal
... equal rank with herself , and but one love , to whom she innocently plights her hand and heart ; or if she had a thousand lovers , she would be the sole object of their adoration and burning vows , without a rival . The heroine of ...
... equal rank with herself , and but one love , to whom she innocently plights her hand and heart ; or if she had a thousand lovers , she would be the sole object of their adoration and burning vows , without a rival . The heroine of ...
88. oldal
... Equal with Solomon : I will have all my beds blown up , not stuft : Down is too hard ; and then , mine oval room Fill'd with such pictures as Tiberius took From Elephantis , and dull Aretine But coldly imitated . Then , my glasses Cut ...
... Equal with Solomon : I will have all my beds blown up , not stuft : Down is too hard ; and then , mine oval room Fill'd with such pictures as Tiberius took From Elephantis , and dull Aretine But coldly imitated . Then , my glasses Cut ...
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