Lectures on the English Comic WritersJ.M. Dent & Sons, Limited, 1930 - 340 oldal |
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35. oldal
... common - place reflections and impertinent digressions . The reader laughs ( as well he may ) in reading the passage , but he lays down the book to think . The wit , however diverting , is social and humane . But this is not the ...
... common - place reflections and impertinent digressions . The reader laughs ( as well he may ) in reading the passage , but he lays down the book to think . The wit , however diverting , is social and humane . But this is not the ...
90. oldal
... common sense.— -Secondly , That the stage cannot shock common decency , according to the notions that prevail of it in any age or country , because the exhibition is public . If the pulpit , for instance , had banished all vice and ...
... common sense.— -Secondly , That the stage cannot shock common decency , according to the notions that prevail of it in any age or country , because the exhibition is public . If the pulpit , for instance , had banished all vice and ...
101. oldal
... common - place : neither ideas nor expressions are trite or vulgar because they are not quite new . They are valuable , and ought to be repeated , if they have not become quite common ; and Johnson's style both of reasoning and imagery ...
... common - place : neither ideas nor expressions are trite or vulgar because they are not quite new . They are valuable , and ought to be repeated , if they have not become quite common ; and Johnson's style both of reasoning and imagery ...
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ON SHAKSPEARE AND BEN JONSON | 30 |
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