A Literary History of EnglandLongmans, Green and Company, 1929 - 392 pagina's |
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Pagina 73
... seems natural to group them together as " romantic comedies . " A light atmosphere of unreality hovers over these four plays . The poet makes us laugh and sigh over the follies . and mischances of men , but it is not his design that we ...
... seems natural to group them together as " romantic comedies . " A light atmosphere of unreality hovers over these four plays . The poet makes us laugh and sigh over the follies . and mischances of men , but it is not his design that we ...
Pagina 80
... seem to Lear the allies of his tiger - hearted daughters . By the imagination alone can the great warfare between good and evil be fitly realised . There is hardly anything to make the tragedy a popular work . The language by turns seems ...
... seem to Lear the allies of his tiger - hearted daughters . By the imagination alone can the great warfare between good and evil be fitly realised . There is hardly anything to make the tragedy a popular work . The language by turns seems ...
Pagina 239
... seems to say ; and in the simple pieties of rustic life he finds a surer foundation for faith in mankind than in the dazzling hopes created by the French Revolution . And though civilized society is often a sorry spectacle , in solitude ...
... seems to say ; and in the simple pieties of rustic life he finds a surer foundation for faith in mankind than in the dazzling hopes created by the French Revolution . And though civilized society is often a sorry spectacle , in solitude ...
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