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... play Sir Andrew Ague - Cheek . * It was a most humorous performance of the part , and the reason is that the actor made no primary effort to be funny . It was the humanity of his playing , making his audience love him first of all ...
... play Sir Andrew Ague - Cheek . * It was a most humorous performance of the part , and the reason is that the actor made no primary effort to be funny . It was the humanity of his playing , making his audience love him first of all ...
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... player might have drawn as many laughs , but there would not have been the catching at the heart . As for books and ... play of words the sources of the pun are lost . It is like a local jest in a narrow coterie , barren to an outsider ...
... player might have drawn as many laughs , but there would not have been the catching at the heart . As for books and ... play of words the sources of the pun are lost . It is like a local jest in a narrow coterie , barren to an outsider ...
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... play with play , novel with novel , essay with essay , Restricted Examination , June , 1930 . etc. 3. From your reading of prose , apart from fiction , mention two or three of the following types which you especially en- joy : ( a ) ...
... play with play , novel with novel , essay with essay , Restricted Examination , June , 1930 . etc. 3. From your reading of prose , apart from fiction , mention two or three of the following types which you especially en- joy : ( a ) ...
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ON GOING A JOURNEY William Hazlitt | 7 |
HOLIDAY John Galsworthy | 18 |
OF FRIENDSHIP Francis Bacon | 25 |
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