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... comic placed in his mouth , has been translated to a realm in which moral considerations are strictly irrelevant . Mrs Gamp , of course , is the shining example in Dickens of what I have called the poetry of the comic ; only a great ...
... comic placed in his mouth , has been translated to a realm in which moral considerations are strictly irrelevant . Mrs Gamp , of course , is the shining example in Dickens of what I have called the poetry of the comic ; only a great ...
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... comic officers , the comic doctors , the spinster ladies , the widows lusting after marriage , the young man of sensibility , the clergyman who is second cousin to Dr Primrose , and the specifically Irish types — the jolly , fat Roman ...
... comic officers , the comic doctors , the spinster ladies , the widows lusting after marriage , the young man of sensibility , the clergyman who is second cousin to Dr Primrose , and the specifically Irish types — the jolly , fat Roman ...
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... comic papers ; Bedford is a vulgar entrepreneur , a very crude satire on the business man in an age of conscious im ... comic novels , Love and Mr Lewisham ( 1900 ) , Kipps ( 1905 ) , The History of Mr Polly ( 1910 ) , are on a higher ...
... comic papers ; Bedford is a vulgar entrepreneur , a very crude satire on the business man in an age of conscious im ... comic novels , Love and Mr Lewisham ( 1900 ) , Kipps ( 1905 ) , The History of Mr Polly ( 1910 ) , are on a higher ...
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