Literary Criticism of John DrydenUniversity of Nebraska Press, 1967 - 174 sivua |
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... humour of his is forced : but to remove that objection , we may consider him first to be naturally of a delicate hearing , as many are to whom all sharp sounds are unpleasant ; and secondly , we may attribute much of it to the ...
... humour of his is forced : but to remove that objection , we may consider him first to be naturally of a delicate hearing , as many are to whom all sharp sounds are unpleasant ; and secondly , we may attribute much of it to the ...
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... humour of this be for low comedy , small accidents , and raillery , I will force my genius to obey it , though with more repu- tation I could write in verse . I know I am not so fitted by nature to write comedy : I want that gaiety of ...
... humour of this be for low comedy , small accidents , and raillery , I will force my genius to obey it , though with more repu- tation I could write in verse . I know I am not so fitted by nature to write comedy : I want that gaiety of ...
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... humour ; yet that latitude would be of small advantage to such poets who have too narrow an imagi- nation to write it . And to entertain an audience perpetually with humour is to carry them from the conversation of gentlemen , and treat ...
... humour ; yet that latitude would be of small advantage to such poets who have too narrow an imagi- nation to write it . And to entertain an audience perpetually with humour is to carry them from the conversation of gentlemen , and treat ...
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