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therefore , that the golden period of our comedy was just after the age of Charles n , when the town first became tainted with the affectation of the manners and conversation of fashionable life , and before the distinction between ...
therefore , that the golden period of our comedy was just after the age of Charles n , when the town first became tainted with the affectation of the manners and conversation of fashionable life , and before the distinction between ...
Page 155
... comedy stooped from her bolder and more fantastic flights ; and the ferocious attack made by the nonjuring divine , Jeremy Collier , on the immorality and profaneness of the plays then chiefly in vogue , nearly frightened those ...
... comedy stooped from her bolder and more fantastic flights ; and the ferocious attack made by the nonjuring divine , Jeremy Collier , on the immorality and profaneness of the plays then chiefly in vogue , nearly frightened those ...
Page 198
Lyly's 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 ...
Lyly's 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 ...
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| Title | The Complete Works of William Hazlitt, Volume 6 The Complete Works of William Hazlitt, Percival Presland Howe |
| Author | William Hazlitt |
| Editors | Percival Presland Howe, Alfred Rayney Waller, Arnold Glover |
| Compiled by | James Thornton |
| Publisher | J. M. Dent and Sons, Limited, 1931 |
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