The Independent Woman in the Restoration Comedy of MannersBRILL, 1976 - 255 Seiten |
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... Belinda cannot , however , dilute our appreciation of her vivid imagination . The dazzling and colorful play of her mind offers us a feast of words . Undercutting another's pretentiousness is Belinda's most effective witty mode . Her ...
... Belinda cannot , however , dilute our appreciation of her vivid imagination . The dazzling and colorful play of her mind offers us a feast of words . Undercutting another's pretentiousness is Belinda's most effective witty mode . Her ...
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... Belinda : Then know , I would be Ador'd in Silence . So Belinda , then , is skilled in deflating excessive zeal , just as the reserved Araminta is careful to contain Belinda's own flights of fancy , thus maintaining the comic decorum of ...
... Belinda : Then know , I would be Ador'd in Silence . So Belinda , then , is skilled in deflating excessive zeal , just as the reserved Araminta is careful to contain Belinda's own flights of fancy , thus maintaining the comic decorum of ...
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... Belinda , the least sophisticated of the three , is blunt and forthright but perhaps not consciously cruel . Lacking the savoir faire which Harriet and Millamant affect , Belinda bludgeons her opponents , rather than parrying their ...
... Belinda , the least sophisticated of the three , is blunt and forthright but perhaps not consciously cruel . Lacking the savoir faire which Harriet and Millamant affect , Belinda bludgeons her opponents , rather than parrying their ...
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