An Old Castle and Other EssaysMacmillan, 1922 - 395 страница |
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... doubt if it is a good acting comedy at all , though the charm of its language and of the characters enthralls us . Still less do I agree that Sterne is " sentimentalism incarnate . " But these are small and possibly private objections ...
... doubt if it is a good acting comedy at all , though the charm of its language and of the characters enthralls us . Still less do I agree that Sterne is " sentimentalism incarnate . " But these are small and possibly private objections ...
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... doubt it , either ; for hadn't you yourself seen at Plymouth the ship that had sailed quite round the world and come home without ever turning back at all ? You had been told that the sun didn't move , but that the earth itself was ...
... doubt it , either ; for hadn't you yourself seen at Plymouth the ship that had sailed quite round the world and come home without ever turning back at all ? You had been told that the sun didn't move , but that the earth itself was ...
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... doubt her truth to him while Philip Sidney lived . Very touching and very significant are the earnest , passionate lines in the eighth song , in which Sidney tells how his lady returned his love : Astrophel , sayd she , my loue , Cease ...
... doubt her truth to him while Philip Sidney lived . Very touching and very significant are the earnest , passionate lines in the eighth song , in which Sidney tells how his lady returned his love : Astrophel , sayd she , my loue , Cease ...
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... doubt not to handle the matter with this Duke of Sidonia as he shall wish himself at home among his orange trees ; only God give us grace to depend upon Him . " Sir Richard Grenville , after having for fifteen hours in his one ship ...
... doubt not to handle the matter with this Duke of Sidonia as he shall wish himself at home among his orange trees ; only God give us grace to depend upon Him . " Sir Richard Grenville , after having for fifteen hours in his one ship ...
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... doubt still felt the buoyant joyousness of youth . Of the three comedies most would , I think , select as the best either the Twelfth Night or the As You Like It , but as between these two I suspect there would be much differ- ence of ...
... doubt still felt the buoyant joyousness of youth . Of the three comedies most would , I think , select as the best either the Twelfth Night or the As You Like It , but as between these two I suspect there would be much differ- ence of ...
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