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Definition of Asides
1. aside [n] - See also: aside
Lexicographical Neighbors of Asides
Literary usage of Asides
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
"Men do not talk in blank verse in real life, nor utter their inmost thoughts in
stage " asides," meant to be heard by the back rows of a distant audience, ..."
2. Diderot and the Encyclopædists by John Morley (1897)
"... denunciation of an atrocity that struck such deep dismay into the hearts of
all the brethren of the Encyclopaedia.2 But Diderot's asides are usually in ..."
3. The Art of Acting and Public Reading: Dramatic Interpretation by Rollo Anson Tallcott (1922)
"asides. One of the most important phases of dramatic dialogue is the speaking
of "asides." There are several forms of the aside each of which requires ..."
4. Studies of the Stage by Brander Matthews (1894)
"asides I.—SHAKSPERE, MOLIERE, AND MODERN ENGLISH COMEDY assert that modern English
comedy owes more to Mo- Here than it does to Shak- spere is to declare a ..."
5. Diderot and the Encyclopœdists by John Morley (1878)
"But Diderot's asides are usually in less tragic matter. A picture of Michael Van
Loo's reminds him that Van Loo had once a friend in Spain. ..."
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