 | Oscar Wilde, Alvin Redman - 1959 - Počet stránok 276
...Conversation. On the return voyage: The Atlantic has been greatly misunderstood. In Conversation * We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language. The Canterville Ghost. * ... the discovery of America was the beginning of the death of art. In Conversation.... | |
 | Oscar Wilde - 1996 - Počet stránok 232
...character before marriage, which I think is never advisable. Lady Brackncl l in Earnesi. act 3. CNGLAND We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language. "The Can terville Ghost," pi. t, in CSR lFebruary 13 and March a, 1887l. repc in Lont Arshue, LORD... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1997 - Počet stránok 666
...Stevie Smith's first book of poems is given as the original source of the expresEnglish Language 1 We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language. OSCAR WILDE, (1854-1900) Anglo-Irish playwright, author. The Canterville Ghost, ch. 1 , Court and Society... | |
 | David Crystal, Hilary Crystal - 2000 - Počet stránok 604
...many things I forgot at Oxford. Oscar W1lde, 0874, in Richard Ellmann, Oscar Wilde (1987), Ch. 2 51:59 We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language. Oscar Wilde, c.188i-2, in Richard Ellmann, Oscar Wilde (1987), Ch. 6 51:60 The amount of pleasure one... | |
 | 2002 - Počet stránok 100
...wonderful amount of animal spirits. WASHINGTON. Indeed, in many respects, she was quite English, MRS. OTIS, and was an excellent example of the fact that we have really very much in common with England nowadays, WASHINGTON, except, WASHINGTON/MR. OTIS, of course, WASHINGTON/MR.... | |
 | Shyamal Bhattacharjee - 2004 - Počet stránok 100
...when these things can be said, then may that country boast of its constitution and its government. * We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course the language. * The problem is not to make political films but to make films politically. with it.... | |
 | Karen Evans, Dave King - 2006 - Počet stránok 236
...long ago as 1887, Oscar Wilde, referring to similarities between Britain and North America, wrote: 'We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language'. In the intervening years that language gap has widened so when using search tools that purport to use... | |
 | Ralph Keyes - 2007 - Počet stránok 416
...observation in any of the playwright's published work. Its genesis may be Oscar Wilde's earlier line "We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language." (See sidebar "Oscar Wilde.") Shaw is sometimes credited with saying, "There may be some doubt as to... | |
 | Kingsley Bolton, Braj B. Kachru - 2006 - Počet stránok 544
...had something to say on the subject, as he did on most subjects, when he observed that the British "have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language" (1888:194). Or, as another wit put it, Britain and America are two countries divided by a common language.... | |
 | Oscar Wilde - 2007 - Počet stránok 244
...so majestic as I expected. On the return voyage: «' The Atlantic has been greatly misunderstood. * We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language. '*' The discovery of America was the beginning of the death of art. %' Once in New York, you are sure... | |
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Indeed, in many respects, she was quite English, and was an excellent example of the fact that we have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language. 