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Page vi
... Teutonic, and the Anglosaxon races. I suggest a comedy as the test rather than a tragedy, because in what is tragic the whole world thinks pretty much alike ; a fount of tears is ta every human breast, and the cry of pain is vi PREFACE.
... Teutonic, and the Anglosaxon races. I suggest a comedy as the test rather than a tragedy, because in what is tragic the whole world thinks pretty much alike ; a fount of tears is ta every human breast, and the cry of pain is vi PREFACE.
Page vii
... comedy as this of As You Like It may be made to yield the test I have spoken of. It is through and through an English comedy, on English soil, in English air, beneath English oaks ; and it will be loved and admired, cherished and ...
... comedy as this of As You Like It may be made to yield the test I have spoken of. It is through and through an English comedy, on English soil, in English air, beneath English oaks ; and it will be loved and admired, cherished and ...
Page viii
... comedy and as the leading characters of the play. The consequence is that this almost flawless chrysolite of a comedy, glittering with Rosalind's brightness and reflecting sermons from stones and glowing with the good in everything ...
... comedy and as the leading characters of the play. The consequence is that this almost flawless chrysolite of a comedy, glittering with Rosalind's brightness and reflecting sermons from stones and glowing with the good in everything ...
Page ix
... comedy of As You Like It. The extracts from Kreyssig, who, of all German commentators, seems to have best caught the spirit of this play, have been translated for me by my Father, the Rev Dr Furness, to whom it is again my high ...
... comedy of As You Like It. The extracts from Kreyssig, who, of all German commentators, seems to have best caught the spirit of this play, have been translated for me by my Father, the Rev Dr Furness, to whom it is again my high ...
Page 5
... Comedy. Not in itself, but just as you, the spectators, choose to pronounce it by your approval.' ' This reference to Ben Jonson,' continues Tieck, ' can be discerned throughout the whole play by the attentive reader who is familiar ...
... Comedy. Not in itself, but just as you, the spectators, choose to pronounce it by your approval.' ' This reference to Ben Jonson,' continues Tieck, ' can be discerned throughout the whole play by the attentive reader who is familiar ...
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