A Course of Lectures on Dramatic Art and LiteratureBell & Daldy, 1871 - 535 pages |
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... taste for reading ..... Give a man this taste , and the means of gratifying it , and you can hardly fail of making him a happy man ; unless , indeed , you put into his hands a most perverse selection of books . You place him in contact ...
... taste for reading ..... Give a man this taste , and the means of gratifying it , and you can hardly fail of making him a happy man ; unless , indeed , you put into his hands a most perverse selection of books . You place him in contact ...
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... Taste between the Ancients and Moderns - Classical and Romantic Poetry and Art - Division of Dramatic Literature ; the Ancients , their Imita- tors , and the Romantic Poets ... LECTURE II . Definition of the Drama - View of the Theatres ...
... Taste between the Ancients and Moderns - Classical and Romantic Poetry and Art - Division of Dramatic Literature ; the Ancients , their Imita- tors , and the Romantic Poets ... LECTURE II . Definition of the Drama - View of the Theatres ...
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... Taste and Morals - Dryden , Otway , and others - Characterization of the Comic Poets from Wycherley and Congreve to the Middle of the Eighteenth Century - Tragedies of the same Period - Rowe - Addison's Cato - Later Pieces - Familiar ...
... Taste and Morals - Dryden , Otway , and others - Characterization of the Comic Poets from Wycherley and Congreve to the Middle of the Eighteenth Century - Tragedies of the same Period - Rowe - Addison's Cato - Later Pieces - Familiar ...
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... taste , sometimes bordering on rusticity ; but he deviates from his usual opinions in favour of the inha- bitants of the South . Their play on words is not the object of his censure ; he detests the affectation which owes its existence ...
... taste , sometimes bordering on rusticity ; but he deviates from his usual opinions in favour of the inha- bitants of the South . Their play on words is not the object of his censure ; he detests the affectation which owes its existence ...
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... taste for intellectual amusement . To this circumstance alone I must attribute it that not a few of the men who hold the most important places at court , in the state , and in the army , artists and literary men of merit , women of the ...
... taste for intellectual amusement . To this circumstance alone I must attribute it that not a few of the men who hold the most important places at court , in the state , and in the army , artists and literary men of merit , women of the ...
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Page 372 - This fellow is wise enough to play the fool; And to do that well craves a kind of wit. 60 He must observe their mood on whom he jests, The quality of persons, and the time, And, like the haggard, check at every feather That comes before his eye. This is a practice As full of labour as a wise man's art.