The Complete Works of William Hazlitt, Volume 6J. M. Dent and Sons, Limited, 1931 |
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Page 36
... comedy exists only in towns , and crowds of borrowed characters , who copy others as the satirist copies them , and who are only seen to be despised . All beyond Hyde Park is a desart to it : ' while there the pastoral and poetic comedy ...
... comedy exists only in towns , and crowds of borrowed characters , who copy others as the satirist copies them , and who are only seen to be despised . All beyond Hyde Park is a desart to it : ' while there the pastoral and poetic comedy ...
Page 37
... comedy was just after the age of Charles 11 , when the town first became tainted with the affectation of the manners and conversation of fashionable life , and before the distinction between rusticity and elegance , art and nature , was ...
... comedy was just after the age of Charles 11 , when the town first became tainted with the affectation of the manners and conversation of fashionable life , and before the distinction between rusticity and elegance , art and nature , was ...
Page 198
... comedy , for instance , is ' poor , unfledged , has never winged from view o ' th ' nest , ' and tries in vain to rise above the ground with crude conceits and clumsy levity . Lydia , the heroine of the piece , is silly enough , if the ...
... comedy , for instance , is ' poor , unfledged , has never winged from view o ' th ' nest , ' and tries in vain to rise above the ground with crude conceits and clumsy levity . Lydia , the heroine of the piece , is silly enough , if the ...
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