The Complete Works of William Hazlitt, Volume 6J. M. Dent and Sons, Limited, 1931 |
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... better , it costs them who have to play in it nothing . We place the mirth , and glee , and triumph , to our own ... better than a tragedy , a farce better than a comedy , a pantomime better than a farce , but a puppet - show best of all ...
... better , it costs them who have to play in it nothing . We place the mirth , and glee , and triumph , to our own ... better than a tragedy , a farce better than a comedy , a pantomime better than a farce , but a puppet - show best of all ...
Page 49
... better than the Witches in Macbeth . LECTURE III ON COWLEY , BUTLER , SUCKLING , ETHEREGE , & C . THE metaphysical poets or wits of the age of James and Charles 1 . whose style was adopted and carried to a more dazzling and fantastic ...
... better than the Witches in Macbeth . LECTURE III ON COWLEY , BUTLER , SUCKLING , ETHEREGE , & C . THE metaphysical poets or wits of the age of James and Charles 1 . whose style was adopted and carried to a more dazzling and fantastic ...
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... better men . The herd of his imitators shewed what he was by their dis- proportionate effects . The Periodical Essayists , that succeeded the Rambler , are , and deserve to be , little read at present . The Adventurer , by Hawksworth ...
... better men . The herd of his imitators shewed what he was by their dis- proportionate effects . The Periodical Essayists , that succeeded the Rambler , are , and deserve to be , little read at present . The Adventurer , by Hawksworth ...
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