Lectures on the English Comic WritersJ.M. Dent & Sons, Limited, 1930 - 340 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 ...
216. oldal
... taken for granted that they must be amiable and interes- ting , in the first instance , and like other things that are taken for granted , is but indifferently , or indeed cannot be made out at all in the sequel . To put it to the proof ...
... taken for granted that they must be amiable and interes- ting , in the first instance , and like other things that are taken for granted , is but indifferently , or indeed cannot be made out at all in the sequel . To put it to the proof ...
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LECTURE | 5 |
ON SHAKSPEARE AND BEN JONSON | 30 |
LECTURE III | 49 |
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