Essays--Fielding: Smollett: Hazlitt: Burns: Byron's World: 'Pippin': Othello: 'T.E.B.': Old England: Balzac: Hugo--Macmillan and Company, Limited, 1921 - 431 strán (strany) |
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... poor reflected glory beside Congreve's ? And The School for Scandal , however gallantly it go , does it contrast effectually with The Way of the World and Love for Love ? And how should this masterly and vigorous , yet rare and ...
... poor reflected glory beside Congreve's ? And The School for Scandal , however gallantly it go , does it contrast effectually with The Way of the World and Love for Love ? And how should this masterly and vigorous , yet rare and ...
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... poor full close . He is said to have remarked that he left off play - writing at the moment when he ought to have been beginning to write plays . But , for my part , while I am prepared to admit that , if he did speak to this purpose ...
... poor full close . He is said to have remarked that he left off play - writing at the moment when he ought to have been beginning to write plays . But , for my part , while I am prepared to admit that , if he did speak to this purpose ...
Strana 36
... poor man went near to dying with her : so great was his passion , so unmixed his agony . Booth is an idler ; but , the Fates being kind , he loves nothing so much as to be alone with Amelia and her babes . Amelia is accepted as Mrs ...
... poor man went near to dying with her : so great was his passion , so unmixed his agony . Booth is an idler ; but , the Fates being kind , he loves nothing so much as to be alone with Amelia and her babes . Amelia is accepted as Mrs ...
Strana 41
... poor post for a man like Henry Fielding : a man versed in law , already a great writer , an adept in humanity , a past - master of essays with complete success . What did the vulgar think of it ? What but that they have always thought ...
... poor post for a man like Henry Fielding : a man versed in law , already a great writer , an adept in humanity , a past - master of essays with complete success . What did the vulgar think of it ? What but that they have always thought ...
Strana 50
... poor and yet well educated , which an Englishman could not be ; for another , because he could ' represent simplicity of manners in a remote part of the kingdom with more propriety than in any place near the capital ' ; and , for ...
... poor and yet well educated , which an Englishman could not be ; for another , because he could ' represent simplicity of manners in a remote part of the kingdom with more propriety than in any place near the capital ' ; and , for ...
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