Poets and Story-tellers: A Book of Critical EssaysMacmillan Company, 1949 - 201 pages |
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Page 19
... comedy in it ; ranging from the farcical humour of the clown , who brings the means of death to Cleopatra - ironically this illustrates how little the great and their misfortunes mean to the humble - to the cool satire of the scene on ...
... comedy in it ; ranging from the farcical humour of the clown , who brings the means of death to Cleopatra - ironically this illustrates how little the great and their misfortunes mean to the humble - to the cool satire of the scene on ...
Page 92
... comedy in which he had served his apprenticeship as a writer , centring upon a hero and heroine and consisting of a formal intrigue which solves itself neatly in a happy ending . Where Fielding failed Fanny Burney was not likely to ...
... comedy in which he had served his apprenticeship as a writer , centring upon a hero and heroine and consisting of a formal intrigue which solves itself neatly in a happy ending . Where Fielding failed Fanny Burney was not likely to ...
Page 95
... comedy is by com- parison fatigued and laboured . Whatever Jane Austen may say in its defence , Camilla has sunk from the noble stature of a novel to the mean stature of a tract . No - Fanny Burney was not an artist , she was not even ...
... comedy is by com- parison fatigued and laboured . Whatever Jane Austen may say in its defence , Camilla has sunk from the noble stature of a novel to the mean stature of a tract . No - Fanny Burney was not an artist , she was not even ...
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