The Comic in Theory & PracticeJohn Jacob Enck, Elizabeth T. Forter, Alvin Whitley |
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H W Fowler 18581933 | 3 |
Samuel Johnson 17091784 | 10 |
William Hazlitt 17781830 | 16 |
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