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Page 8
... interest in it . Playgoers began to be ready to observe the actions of people of their own class , the well - to - do merchants and pro- fessional men who were then conducting the affairs of the country ; and the rule , though never ...
... interest in it . Playgoers began to be ready to observe the actions of people of their own class , the well - to - do merchants and pro- fessional men who were then conducting the affairs of the country ; and the rule , though never ...
Page 113
... interest is established in the persons whom the playwright in- troduces at the beginning of his play so firmly that if the interest is then switched off to other persons who enter upon the scene later , a sense of disappointment ensues ...
... interest is established in the persons whom the playwright in- troduces at the beginning of his play so firmly that if the interest is then switched off to other persons who enter upon the scene later , a sense of disappointment ensues ...
Page 194
... interest . It seems to have escaped the attention of those who have been taken by these curious experiments that the matter treated of in the books in which they are made use of is of an extreme triviality . It almost looks as though ...
... interest . It seems to have escaped the attention of those who have been taken by these curious experiments that the matter treated of in the books in which they are made use of is of an extreme triviality . It almost looks as though ...
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