 | Arlo Bates - 1901 - 306 pages
...themselves. — SAINTSBURY : Crabbe. Comedy is a game played to throw reflections upon social life, and it deals with human nature in the drawing-room of civilized men and women. — MEREDITH : The Egoist. Squire Trelawuey, Dr. Livesey, and the rest of these gentlemen having asked... | |
 | Arlo Bates - 1901 - 280 pages
...themselves. — SAINTSBURY : Crabbe. Comedy is a game played to throw reflections upon social life, and it deals with human nature in the drawing-room of civilized men and women. — MEREDITH : The Egoist. Squire Trelawney, Dr. Livesey, and the rest of these gentlemen having asked... | |
 | American Society for Extension of University Teaching - 1903 - 304 pages
...— England before the Storm. " Comedy is a game played to throw reflections upon social life, and it deals with human nature in the drawing-room of civilized...where we have no dust of the struggling outer world. . . . The comic spirit conceives a definite situation for a number of characters, and rejects all accessories... | |
 | Henry Woodd Nevinson - 1909 - 360 pages
...Master Gammon in " Rhoda Fleming," with his dumplings and cheering immutability ; and, like everyone else, I should add Mrs Berry, too, — but for one...Egoist," deals with human nature in the drawing-room of civilised men and women, where we have no dust of the struggling outer world, no mire, no violent crashes... | |
 | Henry Woodd Nevinson - 1921 - 232 pages
...Master Gammon in "Rhoda Fleming," with his dumplings and cheering immutability; and, like everyone else, I should add Mrs. Berry, too, — but for one...Egoist," deals with human nature in the drawing-room of civilised men and women, where we have no dust of the struggling outer world, no mire, no violent crashes... | |
 | American Society for the Extension of University Teaching - 1903 - 304 pages
...— England before the Storm. " Comedy is a game played to throw reflections upon social life, and It deals with human nature in the drawing-room of civilized...where we have no dust of the struggling outer world. . . . The comic spirit conceives a definite situation for a number of characters, and rejects all accessories... | |
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could eat hog a solid hower"; old Master Gammon in "Rhoda Fleming," with his dumplings and cheering immutability; and, like every one else, I should add Mrs. Berry, too, but for one impossible scene between her and Lucy. Yet he belongs by right to another... 