Lectures on the English Comic WritersJ.M. Dent & Sons, Limited, 1930 - 340 oldal |
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89. oldal
... Stage , frightened the poets , and did all he could to spoil the stage , by pretending to reform it ; that is , by making it an echo of the pulpit , instead of a reflection of the manners of the world . He complains bitterly of the ...
... Stage , frightened the poets , and did all he could to spoil the stage , by pretending to reform it ; that is , by making it an echo of the pulpit , instead of a reflection of the manners of the world . He complains bitterly of the ...
90. oldal
... stage must be copied from real life , that the manners represented there must exist elsewhere , and denote a foregone conclusion , ' to satisfy common sense.— -Secondly , That the stage cannot shock common decency , according to the ...
... stage must be copied from real life , that the manners represented there must exist elsewhere , and denote a foregone conclusion , ' to satisfy common sense.— -Secondly , That the stage cannot shock common decency , according to the ...
150. oldal
... stage , but the criticism which the stage exercises upon public manners , that is fatal to comedy , by rendering the subject - matter of it tame , correct , and spiritless . We are drilled into a sort of stupid decorum , and forced to ...
... stage , but the criticism which the stage exercises upon public manners , that is fatal to comedy , by rendering the subject - matter of it tame , correct , and spiritless . We are drilled into a sort of stupid decorum , and forced to ...
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LECTURE | 5 |
ON SHAKSPEARE AND BEN JONSON | 30 |
LECTURE III | 49 |
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