The National Review, Том 11Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot Robert Theobald, 1860 |
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... light story , and comic writing is out of place when it is employed to lighten the horrors of poisoning , poniarding , and adultery . The diffi- culty of getting a plot which shall be interesting and exciting , and yet not too serious ...
... light story , and comic writing is out of place when it is employed to lighten the horrors of poisoning , poniarding , and adultery . The diffi- culty of getting a plot which shall be interesting and exciting , and yet not too serious ...
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... light , refined , and sparkling , but also because he goes through a considerable amount of serious work , and does what he does thoroughly . In one instance , indeed , he appears to us to have victimised his readers to his own appetite ...
... light , refined , and sparkling , but also because he goes through a considerable amount of serious work , and does what he does thoroughly . In one instance , indeed , he appears to us to have victimised his readers to his own appetite ...
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... light comedy . The wit that is intended to compensate for this emptiness is generally lively , but it is sometimes strained . Perhaps the difference between the smart vagueness of this account of an imaginary party at the Hôtel du ...
... light comedy . The wit that is intended to compensate for this emptiness is generally lively , but it is sometimes strained . Perhaps the difference between the smart vagueness of this account of an imaginary party at the Hôtel du ...
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... light gray - green or its dark and gnarled stems , but as the mother of spears ; the waves , not for their unnumbered smiles , their marvellous mysterious life , but as bearing the triumphant galleys of Poseidon's favourite city ...
... light gray - green or its dark and gnarled stems , but as the mother of spears ; the waves , not for their unnumbered smiles , their marvellous mysterious life , but as bearing the triumphant galleys of Poseidon's favourite city ...
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... light . Again , there are the tame and the wild ; some perpetually , as man and the mule , which are always tame , and others wild , as the panther and the wolf . Others are capable of being quickly tamed , as the elephant . Again , in ...
... light . Again , there are the tame and the wild ; some perpetually , as man and the mule , which are always tame , and others wild , as the panther and the wolf . Others are capable of being quickly tamed , as the elephant . Again , in ...
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