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Genteel comedy is the comedy of fashionable life , and of artificial character and manners . The most pungent ridicule , is that which is directed to mortify vanity , and to expose affectation ; but vanity and affectation , in their ...
Genteel comedy is the comedy of fashionable life , and of artificial character and manners . The most pungent ridicule , is that which is directed to mortify vanity , and to expose affectation ; but vanity and affectation , in their ...
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There is little in her works of passion or character , or even manners , in the most extended sense of the word , as implying the sum - total of our habits and pursuits ; her forte is in describing the absurdities and affectations of ...
There is little in her works of passion or character , or even manners , in the most extended sense of the word , as implying the sum - total of our habits and pursuits ; her forte is in describing the absurdities and affectations of ...
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It is not the criticism which the public taste exercises upon the stage , but the criticism which the stage exercises upon public manners , that is fatal to comedy , by rendering the subject - matter of it tame , correct , and ...
It is not the criticism which the public taste exercises upon the stage , but the criticism which the stage exercises upon public manners , that is fatal to comedy , by rendering the subject - matter of it tame , correct , and ...
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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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