Chinese StoriesW. Blackwood, 1893 - 348 páginas |
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... matter of literary taste . It is laid down , as a law of the Medes and Persians , that the canonical books and the works re- lated to them contain all the wisdom that it is good for man to know , and all the interest and amuse- ment ...
... matter of literary taste . It is laid down , as a law of the Medes and Persians , that the canonical books and the works re- lated to them contain all the wisdom that it is good for man to know , and all the interest and amuse- ment ...
Página xiii
... the placid pens of Chinese story - tellers . Their themes are for the most part the idyllic scenes of country life , in which love , tempered with subdued passion , plays a prominent part . On such matters INTRODUCTION . xiii.
... the placid pens of Chinese story - tellers . Their themes are for the most part the idyllic scenes of country life , in which love , tempered with subdued passion , plays a prominent part . On such matters INTRODUCTION . xiii.
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Sir Robert Kennaway Douglas. passion , plays a prominent part . On such matters they only speak right on , and give us ... matter for novels of the first of these kinds . It has also this great advantage in the eyes of native novelists ...
Sir Robert Kennaway Douglas. passion , plays a prominent part . On such matters they only speak right on , and give us ... matter for novels of the first of these kinds . It has also this great advantage in the eyes of native novelists ...
Página xx
... matter - of - fact and logical European this flighty imagination is sometimes carried to excess , and supernatural wonders which arrest the attention and excite the interest of native audiences serve only to weary him . Ghosts and ...
... matter - of - fact and logical European this flighty imagination is sometimes carried to excess , and supernatural wonders which arrest the attention and excite the interest of native audiences serve only to weary him . Ghosts and ...
Página xxiv
... matter . Stage scenery is unknown , and all that the actors require is a dressing - room from which they can enter on the stage , and to which they can retreat from it . Custom forbids , as a rule , the appearance of more than two ...
... matter . Stage scenery is unknown , and all that the actors require is a dressing - room from which they can enter on the stage , and to which they can retreat from it . Custom forbids , as a rule , the appearance of more than two ...
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