English EssaysBlackie & son, limited, 1906 - 257 strán (strany) |
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Strana xi
... humour that should not be impure . In tracing the course of any literary development , one is apt to exaggerate the importance of the casual coincidences to be found in the literature of different periods . Passages might be singled out ...
... humour that should not be impure . In tracing the course of any literary development , one is apt to exaggerate the importance of the casual coincidences to be found in the literature of different periods . Passages might be singled out ...
Strana xviii
... humour in his nature to enable him to laugh at the follies he was chiding , nor was he , in spite of his endless fertility of resource , possessed in large measure of the literary sense . That an essay ought to be something more than a ...
... humour in his nature to enable him to laugh at the follies he was chiding , nor was he , in spite of his endless fertility of resource , possessed in large measure of the literary sense . That an essay ought to be something more than a ...
Strana xxv
... for this purpose the earlier and looser form of the Tatler was best adapted . Of his sustained pieces of humour there is none better than the description of the Trumpet Club , whose president STEELE'S QUALIFICATIONS . XXV.
... for this purpose the earlier and looser form of the Tatler was best adapted . Of his sustained pieces of humour there is none better than the description of the Trumpet Club , whose president STEELE'S QUALIFICATIONS . XXV.
Strana xxvi
... humour out to such extreme tenuity . That he could do so without having recourse to commonplace interludes is one of Addison's most distinctive characteristics as a humorist . Steele has described four of Addison's Tatlers as xxvi THE ...
... humour out to such extreme tenuity . That he could do so without having recourse to commonplace interludes is one of Addison's most distinctive characteristics as a humorist . Steele has described four of Addison's Tatlers as xxvi THE ...
Strana xxix
... humour and with the results of an observant study of character , but they show scarcely anything of Addison's artistic skill in developing a picture . Sir Roger at the as- sizes , or at the play - house , may be taken as supreme ...
... humour and with the results of an observant study of character , but they show scarcely anything of Addison's artistic skill in developing a picture . Sir Roger at the as- sizes , or at the play - house , may be taken as supreme ...
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