| David Nichol Smith - 1903 - 450 pagine
...innocence, quiet, and security, with those of turbulence, violence, and adventure. In his comick scenes he is seldom very successful, when he engages his characters...reign of Elizabeth is commonly supposed to have been a time of stateliness, formality, and reserve, yet perhaps the relaxations of that severity were not... | |
| David Nichol Smith - 1903 - 434 pagine
...innocence, quiet, and security, with those of turbulence, violence, and adventure. In his comick scenes he is seldom very successful, when he engages his characters...reign of Elizabeth is commonly supposed to have been a time of stateliness, formality, and reserve, yet perhaps the relaxations of that severity were not... | |
| Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1905 - 426 pagine
...of turbulence, violence, and adventure. In his comic scenes he is seldom very successful when he 25 engages his characters in reciprocations of smartness...clowns by any appearance of refined manners. Whether 30 he represented the real conversation of his time is not easy to determine: the reign of Elizabeth... | |
| Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1905 - 422 pagine
...nor are sufficiently distinguished from his clowns by any appearance of refined manners. Whether 30 he represented the real conversation of his time is...reign of Elizabeth is commonly supposed to have been a time of stateliness, formality, and reserve; yet perhaps the relaxations of that severity were not... | |
| Beverley Ellison Warner - 1906 - 328 pagine
...scenes, he is seldom very successful, when he engages his characters in reciprocations of smart- </ ness and contests of sarcasm; their jests are commonly...reign of Elizabeth is commonly supposed to have been a time of stateliness, formality, and reserve, yet perhaps, the relaxations of that severity were not... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1908 - 254 pagine
...innocence, quiet and security, with those of turbulence, violence, and adventure. In his comick scenes he is seldom very successful, when he engages his characters...reign of Elizabeth is commonly supposed to have been a time of stateliness, formality and reserve ; yet perhaps the relaxations of that severity were not... | |
| William Caxton, Jean Calvin, Nicolaus Copernicus, Francis Bacon, Edmund Spenser, Sir Walter Raleigh, Isaac Newton, Henry Fielding, Samuel Johnson, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, William Wordsworth, Walt Whitman - 1910 - 458 pagine
...innocence, quiet and security, with those of turbulence, violence, and adventure. In his comick scenes he is seldom very successful, when he engages his characters...reign of Elizabeth is commonly supposed to have been a time of stateliness, formality and reserve; yet perhaps the relaxations of that severity were not very... | |
| 1910 - 482 pagine
...innocence, quiet and security, with those of turbulence, violence, and adventure. In his comick scenes he is seldom very successful, when he engages his characters...of his time is not easy to determine; the reign of Elisabeth is commonly supposed to have been a time of stateliness, formality and reserve; yet perhaps... | |
| Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 754 pagine
...innocence, quiet, and security with those of turbulence, violence, and adventure. In his comic scenes he is seldom very successful when he engages his characters...reign of Elizabeth is commonly supposed to have been a time of stateliness, formality, and reserve, yet perhaps the relaxations of that severity were not... | |
| Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 744 pagine
...innocence, quiet, and security with those of turbulence, violence, and adventure. In his comic scenes he is seldom very successful when he engages his characters...reign of Elizabeth is commonly supposed to have been a time of stateliness, formality, and reserve, yet perhaps the relaxations of that severity were not... | |
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