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Page 10
... humour , and malice . He had known Swinburne inti- mately and could talk about him in an entrancing fashion , but he could also talk of Shelley , whom after all he could not pos- sibly have known , as if he had been a bosom - friend ...
... humour , and malice . He had known Swinburne inti- mately and could talk about him in an entrancing fashion , but he could also talk of Shelley , whom after all he could not pos- sibly have known , as if he had been a bosom - friend ...
Page 63
... humour . A sense of humour leads you to take pleasure in the discrepancies of human nature ; it leads you to mistrust great professions and look for the unworthy motive that they conceal ; the disparity between appearance and reality ...
... humour . A sense of humour leads you to take pleasure in the discrepancies of human nature ; it leads you to mistrust great professions and look for the unworthy motive that they conceal ; the disparity between appearance and reality ...
Page 120
... humour , wit and fer- tility of comic invention . Ibsen as we know had a meagre power of invention ; his characters under different names are very dully repeated and his intrigue from play to play is little varied . It is not a gross ...
... humour , wit and fer- tility of comic invention . Ibsen as we know had a meagre power of invention ; his characters under different names are very dully repeated and his intrigue from play to play is little varied . It is not a gross ...
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