Lamb's Criticism: A Selection from the Literary Criticism of Charles LambThe University Press, 1923 - 114 Seiten |
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... speak : it meets us everywhere in the good and the bad alike . He had no master , his tastes were entirely native , and there is hardly a line of his criticism that anyone else could have written . Lamb's defects as a critic were ...
... speak : it meets us everywhere in the good and the bad alike . He had no master , his tastes were entirely native , and there is hardly a line of his criticism that anyone else could have written . Lamb's defects as a critic were ...
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... speak only of the great artists in the profession . The most mortifying infirmity in human nature , to feel in ourselves , or to contemplate in another , is , perhaps , cowardice . To see a coward done to the life upon a stage would ...
... speak only of the great artists in the profession . The most mortifying infirmity in human nature , to feel in ourselves , or to contemplate in another , is , perhaps , cowardice . To see a coward done to the life upon a stage would ...
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... speak , to pit , box , and gallery . When an impertinent in tragedy , an Osric , for instance , breaks in upon the serious passions of the scene , we approve of the contempt with which he is treated . But when the pleasant impertinent ...
... speak , to pit , box , and gallery . When an impertinent in tragedy , an Osric , for instance , breaks in upon the serious passions of the scene , we approve of the contempt with which he is treated . But when the pleasant impertinent ...
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... speaking ) , has a necessary alliance with insanity , the greatest wits , on the contrary , will ever be found to be the sanest writers . It is impossible for the mind to conceive of a mad Shakspeare . The greatness of wit , by which ...
... speaking ) , has a necessary alliance with insanity , the greatest wits , on the contrary , will ever be found to be the sanest writers . It is impossible for the mind to conceive of a mad Shakspeare . The greatness of wit , by which ...
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... speak of the best of them - are among the very best of their sort . They fall below the plain moral dignity , the sanctity , and high yet modest spirit of self - approval , of Milton , in his compositions of a similar structure . They ...
... speak of the best of them - are among the very best of their sort . They fall below the plain moral dignity , the sanctity , and high yet modest spirit of self - approval , of Milton , in his compositions of a similar structure . They ...
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