Poets and Story-tellers: A Book of Critical EssaysMacmillan, 1949 - 201 pages |
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Page 72
... Humour was Gray's natural and original turn , that he never wrote anything easily but things of Humour " . In view of these poems , it is hard to disagree with him . Nowhere else does Gray's virtuosity seem so effortless ; nowhere else ...
... Humour was Gray's natural and original turn , that he never wrote anything easily but things of Humour " . In view of these poems , it is hard to disagree with him . Nowhere else does Gray's virtuosity seem so effortless ; nowhere else ...
Page 78
... humour and their suspicion of any enter- tainment that demanded a strenuous intellectual effort , tended to follow Fielding . Fanny Burney had a typically English talent ; she was a bright , light , humorous observer of the outward ...
... humour and their suspicion of any enter- tainment that demanded a strenuous intellectual effort , tended to follow Fielding . Fanny Burney had a typically English talent ; she was a bright , light , humorous observer of the outward ...
Page 179
... humour and observation ; it is diversified by an incessantly changing procession of moods ; it is made vital by her unsleeping curiosity about everything great and small that comes within her line of vision . She is by far the most ...
... humour and observation ; it is diversified by an incessantly changing procession of moods ; it is made vital by her unsleeping curiosity about everything great and small that comes within her line of vision . She is by far the most ...
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