Fools and Philosophers: A Gallery of Comic Figures from English LiteratureDodd, Mead & Company, 1925 - 299 pàgines |
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... perhaps the best example ) who have a fine sense of comedy in char- acter , whose work is saturated in humour , are yet a shade too close to realism , are too reluctant to abandon themselves to their more absurd crea- tions , to provide ...
... perhaps the best example ) who have a fine sense of comedy in char- acter , whose work is saturated in humour , are yet a shade too close to realism , are too reluctant to abandon themselves to their more absurd crea- tions , to provide ...
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... perhaps sixty - two .'- ' Forty , ' replied Sir Basil , forty , and no more . ' Picture to your- selves my amazement : I shall not easily forget Admiral Baldwin . I never saw quite so wretched an example of what a seafaring life can do ...
... perhaps sixty - two .'- ' Forty , ' replied Sir Basil , forty , and no more . ' Picture to your- selves my amazement : I shall not easily forget Admiral Baldwin . I never saw quite so wretched an example of what a seafaring life can do ...
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... Perhaps I speak with some little partiality . It may not be for me to say that I have been called , for some years now , Gentleman Turveydrop ; or that His Royal Highness the Prince Regent did me the honour to inquire , on my removing ...
... Perhaps I speak with some little partiality . It may not be for me to say that I have been called , for some years now , Gentleman Turveydrop ; or that His Royal Highness the Prince Regent did me the honour to inquire , on my removing ...
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... even if he grows riotous in his cups : third , because there is nothing to quarrel about ; and perhaps that is the best reason of the three ; or rather the first is the best , because you are 68 Fools and Philosophers.
... even if he grows riotous in his cups : third , because there is nothing to quarrel about ; and perhaps that is the best reason of the three ; or rather the first is the best , because you are 68 Fools and Philosophers.
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... perhaps with some distrust of Adams ' sincerity , departed . He was no sooner gone than the host fell a shaking his head , and declared , if he had suspected the fellow " " had no money , he would not have 103 Some Moralists.
... perhaps with some distrust of Adams ' sincerity , departed . He was no sooner gone than the host fell a shaking his head , and declared , if he had suspected the fellow " " had no money , he would not have 103 Some Moralists.
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Fools and Philosophers: A Gallery of Comic Figures from English Literature John Boynton Priestley Visualització completa - 1925 |
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ACRES ain't answered appearance asked BEEFEATER Betsey Bless Bob Sawyer chair Convinses Copperfield cried Crummles dear dear Jane door doth drink Elphin eyes FALSTAFF father feel fellow Fledgeby Frank Churchill Gamp gentleman ghost give hand hear honest honour hope inquired J. B. PRIESTLEY Jones Jorrocks lady Lammle legs look lord Madame Mantalini Malaprop Malvolio Marchioness married Master Micawber Micawber's Miss mother Muleygrubs never Nicholas Nick Bottom Nickleby night observed Partridge Pecksniff Pickwick play pray pretty Prig PRINCE PUFF QUIN quoth my uncle replied round Sam Weller Samivel Sammy Seithenyn Serjeant Buzfuz SHAL Shandy SIR LUC Sir Lucius Skimpole smile SNEER speak sure Taliesin talk tell thank thee there's thing thou thought Todgers Toots Traddles Trim turning uncle Toby Waldengarver Weller wery Winkle wish word young
Passatges populars
Pàgina 205 - You were in the passage and yet saw nothing of what was going forward. Have you a pair of eyes, Mr. Weller ? " "Yes, I have a pair of eyes," replied Sam, "and that's just it. If they wos a pair o' patent double million magnifyin' gas microscopes of hextra power, p'raps I might be able to see through a flight o' stairs and a deal door ; but bein' only eyes you see, my wision's limited.
Pàgina 10 - tis no matter ; honour pricks me on. Yea, but how if honour prick me off when I come on ? how then ? Can honour set to a leg ? no : or an arm ? no : or take away the grief of a wound ? no. Honour hath no skill in surgery, then ? no. What is honour ? a word. What is in that word honour ? what is that honour ? air. A trim reckoning ! Who hath it ? he that died o
Pàgina 256 - Then, sir, she should have a supercilious knowledge in accounts; and as she grew up, I would have her instructed in geometry, that she might know something of the contagious countries. But above all, Sir Anthony, she should be mistress of orthodoxy, that she might not misspell and mispronounce words so shamefully as girls usually do; and likewise that she might reprehend the true meaning of what she is saying.
Pàgina 225 - ... that the establishment I can offer would be any other than highly desirable. My situation in life, my connections with the family of De Bourgh, and my relationship to your own, are circumstances highly in my...
Pàgina 255 - In my way hither, Mrs. Malaprop, I observed your niece's maid coming forth from a circulating library! — She had a book in each hand — they were half-bound volumes, with marble covers! — from that moment I guessed how full of duty I should see her mistress ! Mrs.
Pàgina 285 - For auld lang syne, my dear, For auld lang syne, We'll tak a cup o' kindness yet, For auld lang syne. We twa hae run about the braes, And pu'd the gowans fine ; But we've wander'd mony a weary foot Sin auld lang syne.
Pàgina 228 - Taint in poetry, is it ?" interposed his father. " No, no/' replied Sam. " Wery glad to hear it," said Mr. Weller. " Poetry's unnat'ral ; no man ever talked poetry 'cept a beadle on boxin...
Pàgina 229 - circumscribed, that's it." '• That ain't as good a word as circumwented, Sammy," said Mr. Weller gravely. "Think not?" said Sam. " Nothin' like it," replied his father. " But don't you think it means more ? " inquired Sam. " Veil p'raps it is a more tenderer word,
Pàgina 229 - is, that there ain't no callin' names in it, — no Wenuses, nor nothin' o' that kind. Wot's the good o' callin' a young 'ooman a Wenus or a angel, Sammy?
Pàgina 81 - I care not how fast it rolls on, while such purl on the bank still is growing, and such eyes light the waves as they run. Marchioness, your health.