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...Excerpt: A chapter of which the last page only is of any importance 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, where we have no dust of the struggling outer world, no mire, no violent crashes, t...

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...ersity is an equal opportunity university. 3 George Meredith The Egoist A Comedy in Narrative by George Meredith PRELUDE A CHAPTER OF WHICH THE LAST ... ...eredith PRELUDE A CHAPTER OF WHICH THE LAST PAGE ONLY IS OF ANY IMPORTANCE COMEDY is a game played to throw reflections upon social life, and it deals... ...the Comic Spirit, who is after all our own offspring, to relieve the Book. Comedy, they say, is the true diversion, as it is likewise the key of the g... ...The remedy of your frightful affliction is here, through the stillatory of Comedy, and not in Science, nor yet in Speed, whose name is but another for... ...us as with the arms of Amphitrite! We hear a shout of war for a diversion.—Comedy he pronounces to be our means of read- ing swiftly and comprehensive... ... one foot’s length of pretence, will have that foot caught in her trap. In Comedy is the singular scene of charity issuing of disdain under the stroke... ...hem would follow where there was no heart. The twists of the heart are the comedy. “The secret of the heart is its pressing love of self “, says the B... ..., or at least there was danger of a precipitate descent from the levels of comedy. The parents of hymeneal men and women he was indisposed to consider...

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... situations, and opportunities to chuckle, if not outright laughs, that we expect from PG Wodehouse. It lacks the frantic slapstick of some Wodehouse comedy, but has a quieter more reflective humour. Kirk, the erstwhile hero, is a typical Wodehousian hero. At the beginning of the story, he is thoroughly likeable, a healthy, but a somewhat weak and malleable fellow. He dabs...

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...é de Balzac A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Human Comedy: Introductions & Appendix by Honoré de Balzac is a publication of th... ...ument or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Human Comedy: Introductions & Appendix by Honoré de Balzac, the Pennsylvania Stat... ............................................................. 43 4 The Human Comedy: Introductions & Appendix The Human Comedy: Introductions & Appendix... ...e stage. And, as students of Balzac know, the scheme and adjustment of his comedy varied so remark- ably as time went on that it can hardly be said to... ... scenes are even in the mass by no means exhaustive, and are, 6 The Human Comedy: Introductions & Appendix as they stand, a very “cross,” division of... ...Villemain, Guizot, and Cousin were lecturing, and heard them, 8 The Human Comedy: Introductions & Appendix as his sister tells us, enthusiastically, ... ...curiously, interestingly , almost enthrallingly bad. Couched 10 The Human Comedy: Introductions & Appendix for the most part in a kind of Radcliffian... ...to other pockets since, being neither more nor less than the 12 The Human Comedy: Introductions & Appendix issuing of cheap one-volume editions of Fr... ...tinctly to the latter. Corentin, Hulot, and other personages of the actual Comedy (then by no means planned, or at least avowed) appear; and though th...

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Excerpt: The Divine Comedy, Volume One, Hell [The Inferno] by Dante Aligheri, trans Charles Eliot Norton.

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...ON .................................................................................................................7 AIDS TO THE STUDY OF THE DIVINE COMEDY .......................................................... 14 HELL .............................................................................. 16 CANTO I. Dante, astray in a wood, reaches the foot of a hill which he...

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...iot Norton A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Divine Comedy, Volume One, Hell [The Inferno] by Dante Aligheri, trans Charles Eli... ...ment or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Divine Comedy, Volume One, Hell [The Inferno] by Dante Aligheri, trans Charles Eli... ...DIVINE COMED THE DIVINE COMED THE DIVINE COMED THE DIVINE COMED THE DIVINE COMEDY Y Y Y Y .......................................................... .... ........................................... 117 117 117 117 117 6 The Divine Comedy – Hell The Divine Comedy Volume 1 Hell [The Inferno] by Dante Alighe... ...end and master from youth. I was but a beginner in the study of the Divine Comedy when I first had his incomparable aid in the understanding of it. Du... ...DUCTION ODUCTION ODUCTION ODUCTION ODUCTION So many versions of the Divine Comedy exist in English that a new one might well seem needless. But most o... ...uch a translation can give but an inadequate suggestion; the 8 The Divine Comedy – Hell musical bond was of its essence, and the loss of the musical ... ... No poem in any tongue is more informed with rhythmic life than the Divine Comedy. And yet, such is its extraordi- nary distinction, no poem has an in... ...sion than seriously to impede its easy and unperplexed cur- 10 The Divine Comedy – Hell rent. There are few sentences in the Divina Commedia in which...

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...W A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Penn... ...or the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy by George Bernard Shaw, the Pennsylvania State Univ... ...y is an equal opportunity university. 3 Man & Superman MAN AND SUPERMAN A COMEDY AND A PHILOSOPHY by GEORGE BERNARD SHAW EPISTLE DEDICATORY TO ARTHUR... ... Quixote grovelling before Dulcinea. You must admit that here Nature beats Comedy out of the field: the wildest hominist or feminist farce is insipid ... .... There is a political aspect of this sex question which is too big for my comedy, and too momentous to be passed over without culpable frivolity. It ... ...in alarm whether I have actually put all this tub thumping into a Don Juan comedy. I have not. I have only made my Don Juan a political pamphleteer, a... ...tory nor the dream of Don 22 GB Shaw Juan in the third act of the ensuing comedy is suitable for immediate production at a popular theatre we need no... ...at- est of Shakespear’s comedies; but description is not philoso- phy; and comedy neither compromises the author nor re- veals him. He must be judged ... ...e world but personal aims and the tragedy of their disappoint- ment or the comedy of their incongruity, and the field preacher who achieved virtue and...

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Excerpt: The Divine Comedy, Volume Two, Purgatory [Purgatorio] by Dante Aligheri, trans Charles Eliot Norton.

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...iot Norton A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Divine Comedy, Volume Two, Purgatory [Purgatorio] by Dante Aligheri, trans Charles... ...ment or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Divine Comedy, Volume Two, Purgatory [Purgatorio] by Dante Aligheri, trans Charles... ...and is fit to ascend to Heaven. .............. 120 6 Purgatory The Divine Comedy Volume 2 Purgatory [Purgatorio] by Dante Aligheri T ranslated by Cha...

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Excerpt: The Divine Comedy, Volume Three, Paradise [Paradiso] by Dante Aligheri, trans Charles Eliot Norton.

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...iot Norton A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Divine Comedy, Volume Three, Paradise [Paradiso] by Dante Aligheri, trans Charles ... ...ment or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Divine Comedy, Volume Three, Paradise [Paradiso] by Dante Aligheri, trans Charles ... ...te Salvation..................................... 121 6 Norton The Divine Comedy Volume 3 Paradise [Paradiso] by Dante Aligheri T ranslated by Charle...

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