Lectures on the English Comic WritersJ.M. Dent and Company, 1900 - 304 oldal |
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... common sense ; for it can only expose to instan- taneous contempt that which it condemned by public opinion , and is hostile to the common sense of man- kind . Or , to put it differently , it is the test of the quantity of truth that ...
... common sense ; for it can only expose to instan- taneous contempt that which it condemned by public opinion , and is hostile to the common sense of man- kind . Or , to put it differently , it is the test of the quantity of truth that ...
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... common behaviour , which is quite as romantic and impracticable as any other idea of the sort ; and the consequence has naturally been that she makes her heroines commit the greatest improprieties and absurdities in order to avoid the ...
... common behaviour , which is quite as romantic and impracticable as any other idea of the sort ; and the consequence has naturally been that she makes her heroines commit the greatest improprieties and absurdities in order to avoid the ...
241. oldal
... common to human nature in general , that is , his Miser without avarice , his Hypocrite without design , and his Misanthrope without disgust at the vices of mankind ; ] these theorists , in short , have been sanguine enough to expect a ...
... common to human nature in general , that is , his Miser without avarice , his Hypocrite without design , and his Misanthrope without disgust at the vices of mankind ; ] these theorists , in short , have been sanguine enough to expect a ...
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