Critical and Historical Essays, Contributed to the Edinburgh Review: In Five Volumes, Volume 5Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1850 - 318 pagina's |
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... humour , often richly comic , sometimes even farcical . Fanny's propensity to novel - writing had for a time been kept down . It now rose up stronger than ever . The heroes and heroines of the tales which had perished in the flames ...
... humour , often richly comic , sometimes even farcical . Fanny's propensity to novel - writing had for a time been kept down . It now rose up stronger than ever . The heroes and heroines of the tales which had perished in the flames ...
Pagina 51
... humour or in power of portraying character , but in grace and in purity of style . We have heard that , about this time , a tragedy by Madame D'Arblay was performed without success . We do not know whether it was ever printed ; nor ...
... humour or in power of portraying character , but in grace and in purity of style . We have heard that , about this time , a tragedy by Madame D'Arblay was performed without success . We do not know whether it was ever printed ; nor ...
Pagina 57
... humour . " There are undoubtedly persons , in whom humours such as Ben describes have attained a complete ascendency . The avarice of Elwes , the insane desire of Sir Egerton Brydges for a barony to which he had no more right than to ...
... humour . " There are undoubtedly persons , in whom humours such as Ben describes have attained a complete ascendency . The avarice of Elwes , the insane desire of Sir Egerton Brydges for a barony to which he had no more right than to ...
Pagina 67
... humour , and which yet should not contain a single line inconsistent with rigid morality , or even with virgin delicacy . She took away the reproach which lay on a most useful and delightful species of composition . She vindicated the ...
... humour , and which yet should not contain a single line inconsistent with rigid morality , or even with virgin delicacy . She took away the reproach which lay on a most useful and delightful species of composition . She vindicated the ...
Pagina 77
... the Battle of the Cranes and Pygmies ; for in that piece we discern a gleam of the fancy and humour which many years later en- livened thousands of breakfast tables . Swift boasted that he LIFE AND WRITINGS OF ADDISON . 77.
... the Battle of the Cranes and Pygmies ; for in that piece we discern a gleam of the fancy and humour which many years later en- livened thousands of breakfast tables . Swift boasted that he LIFE AND WRITINGS OF ADDISON . 77.
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Critical and Historical Essays, Contributed to the Edinburgh ..., Volume 5 Macaulay Volledige weergave - 1850 |
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