Poets and Story-tellersBarnes & Noble, 1961 - 201 pages |
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Page 4
... ladies jesting and gossiping , now in Rome among wrangling statesmen , now in Sicily witnessing a drunken party . Numbers of characters cross the stage , talking a lot and doing very little . There are quarrels and reconciliations ...
... ladies jesting and gossiping , now in Rome among wrangling statesmen , now in Sicily witnessing a drunken party . Numbers of characters cross the stage , talking a lot and doing very little . There are quarrels and reconciliations ...
Page 18
... ladies and eunuchs . We are constantly kept in mind of the public nature of the subject ; we are never intended to forget that Antony's defeat will prove a disaster to all who have ranged themselves under his banner . And we see both 18 ...
... ladies and eunuchs . We are constantly kept in mind of the public nature of the subject ; we are never intended to forget that Antony's defeat will prove a disaster to all who have ranged themselves under his banner . And we see both 18 ...
Page 83
... ladies ; now crowding up the stairs to the Italian Opera , now at a fashionable concert overhearing the conversa- tion of two frivolous debutantes : " ... though there was an excellent concert in which several capital performers played ...
... ladies ; now crowding up the stairs to the Italian Opera , now at a fashionable concert overhearing the conversa- tion of two frivolous debutantes : " ... though there was an excellent concert in which several capital performers played ...
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action admiration Adolphe æsthetic Antony and Cleopatra Antony's appear artist aspects beauty Branghtons Burney's character charm civilised comedy comic complex convention critic Dalloway death Devil drama Duchess Duchess of Malfi E. M. FORSTER eighteenth-century Elizabethan Ellénore emotion English Evelina experience expression eyes fact Fanny Burney feeling Flamineo Forster give Gray Gray's heart hero heroine historical House of Gentlefolk Howard's End human humour imagination impression inevitably Jane Austen ladies live Longest Journey looked love-story Mansfield Park mind Miss mood moral nature never Northanger Abbey novel novelists observation Octavius once passages passion picture Pindaric play plot poem poetry Progress of Poesy reader realistic reality relation reveals romantic Russian satirical scene seems sense sensibility sentiment Shakespeare shows significance social soul spirit story success talent taste theme things thought tragedy tragic true Turgenev turn Virginia Woolf virtue vision Webster Wilcox worldly writer