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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... writer almost without a smile . The moderately intellectual also reserve their most dithyrambic praises for a ... writers could not laugh Euripides out of existence ; the wit and the humorist , however , serve us by passing honest ...
... writer almost without a smile . The moderately intellectual also reserve their most dithyrambic praises for a ... writers could not laugh Euripides out of existence ; the wit and the humorist , however , serve us by passing honest ...
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... writer is as likely to be the object of the disparagement as a pretentious or an absurd one . Some people say that ... writers of our time are humorists , though it may not be to their Vol . 241.-No. 478 . D humour that they have owed ...
... writer is as likely to be the object of the disparagement as a pretentious or an absurd one . Some people say that ... writers of our time are humorists , though it may not be to their Vol . 241.-No. 478 . D humour that they have owed ...
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... writers but agains the younger generation that the pessimist brings th charge of humorlessness . The younger generation humorous writers is there , however , if only the younge generation of readers would realise how much mor worth ...
... writers but agains the younger generation that the pessimist brings th charge of humorlessness . The younger generation humorous writers is there , however , if only the younge generation of readers would realise how much mor worth ...
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... writers , seems to have longed that the world could have remained young and at play and at peace , and she has an angry sense of the tragedy that underlies the follies and futilities on which she expends her wit and humour . In the last ...
... writers , seems to have longed that the world could have remained young and at play and at peace , and she has an angry sense of the tragedy that underlies the follies and futilities on which she expends her wit and humour . In the last ...
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... writer as Mr Knox says very little in his comedy abo the tradition that he reverences , but the reverence f tradition is implicit in his work , and it is the ludicro disparity between the great tradition and the upsta impudence that has ...
... writer as Mr Knox says very little in his comedy abo the tradition that he reverences , but the reverence f tradition is implicit in his work , and it is the ludicro disparity between the great tradition and the upsta impudence that has ...
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