Lectures on the English Comic WritersWiley and Putnam, 1845 - 222 pages |
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... instance of this in the dialogue be- tween Aimwell and Gibbet , in the ' Beaux ' Stratagem , ' where Aimwell mistakes his companion for an officer in a marching regiment , and Gibbet takes it for granted that the gentleman is a ...
... instance of this in the dialogue be- tween Aimwell and Gibbet , in the ' Beaux ' Stratagem , ' where Aimwell mistakes his companion for an officer in a marching regiment , and Gibbet takes it for granted that the gentleman is a ...
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... instances of deviation from the right line , branching out in all directions , shows the inveteracy of the original bias to any extravagance or folly , the natural improbability , as it were , increasing every time with the ...
... instances of deviation from the right line , branching out in all directions , shows the inveteracy of the original bias to any extravagance or folly , the natural improbability , as it were , increasing every time with the ...
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... instances of the same sort in the Thousand and One Nights , which are an inexhaustible mine of comic humour and invention , and which , from the manners of the East which they describe , carry the principle of callous indifference in a ...
... instances of the same sort in the Thousand and One Nights , which are an inexhaustible mine of comic humour and invention , and which , from the manners of the East which they describe , carry the principle of callous indifference in a ...
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... instances of ef- fectual and harrowing imagination are in the story of Amine and her three sisters , whom she led by her side as a leash of hounds , and of the goul who nibbled grains of rice for her dinner , and preyed on human ...
... instances of ef- fectual and harrowing imagination are in the story of Amine and her three sisters , whom she led by her side as a leash of hounds , and of the goul who nibbled grains of rice for her dinner , and preyed on human ...
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... instance or two . Butler , in his ' Hudibras , ' compares the change of night into day to the change of colour in a boiled lobster . " The sun had long since , in the lap Of Thetis , taken out his nap ; And , like a lobster boil'd , the ...
... instance or two . Butler , in his ' Hudibras , ' compares the change of night into day to the change of colour in a boiled lobster . " The sun had long since , in the lap Of Thetis , taken out his nap ; And , like a lobster boil'd , the ...
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