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Page 26
... perfect way to write and I started to work on him in the same way as I had done with Jeremy Taylor . I chose The Tale of a Tub . It is said that when the Dean re - read it in his old age he cried : ' What genius I had then ! ' To my ...
... perfect way to write and I started to work on him in the same way as I had done with Jeremy Taylor . I chose The Tale of a Tub . It is said that when the Dean re - read it in his old age he cried : ' What genius I had then ! ' To my ...
Page 105
... perfect audience . After each act the director reads out the remarks he has jotted down . There is a row with the electrician who , with nothing to do but attend to his switches , has turned on the wrong ones ; and the author is ...
... perfect audience . After each act the director reads out the remarks he has jotted down . There is a row with the electrician who , with nothing to do but attend to his switches , has turned on the wrong ones ; and the author is ...
Page 220
... perfect short stories have been written by Charles Lamb and Hazlitt . But the delight in listening to stories is as natural to human nature as the delight in looking at the danc- ing and miming out of which drama arose . That it exists ...
... perfect short stories have been written by Charles Lamb and Hazlitt . But the delight in listening to stories is as natural to human nature as the delight in looking at the danc- ing and miming out of which drama arose . That it exists ...
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