The Quarterly Review, Volumes 241-242William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1924 |
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... one from the other . Molière in France , and , on a lower level , Addison in England , laughed at the little rather than at the great , but it has been claimed for 44 HUMOUR each of them that he served his age. ( 48 )
... one from the other . Molière in France , and , on a lower level , Addison in England , laughed at the little rather than at the great , but it has been claimed for 44 HUMOUR each of them that he served his age. ( 48 )
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... Molière by having written his comedies will have mac it easier for the last man with his last breath to tal common sense . Sainte - Beuve declared of Molière that to love him • • • ' is to have a guarantee against many a defect and man ...
... Molière by having written his comedies will have mac it easier for the last man with his last breath to tal common sense . Sainte - Beuve declared of Molière that to love him • • • ' is to have a guarantee against many a defect and man ...
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... Molière and the common sense of Pope held up the slightly distorting mirror of comedy . There is no other remedy ... Molière's on humour alone . But just as , a few years ago , when everybody was saying that poetry was dead , poetry ...
... Molière and the common sense of Pope held up the slightly distorting mirror of comedy . There is no other remedy ... Molière's on humour alone . But just as , a few years ago , when everybody was saying that poetry was dead , poetry ...
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... Molière sitting on the Front Bench as Prime Minister . We are still too far from Utopia , however , for it to be safe to put the comic spirit at the head of any of the political parties . Politicians believe that they distrust the comic ...
... Molière sitting on the Front Bench as Prime Minister . We are still too far from Utopia , however , for it to be safe to put the comic spirit at the head of any of the political parties . Politicians believe that they distrust the comic ...
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... Molière and even Congreve . But I am sure the first man who laughed had no thought of doing anybody any good . There is no record of the first laugh in the histories , but I have no doubt it was caused by some one's tripping over a ...
... Molière and even Congreve . But I am sure the first man who laughed had no thought of doing anybody any good . There is no record of the first laugh in the histories , but I have no doubt it was caused by some one's tripping over a ...
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