The Complete Works of William Hazlitt, Volume 6J. M. Dent and Sons, Limited, 1931 |
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... tragedies , is but natural . This is only saying that a comedy is not so serious a thing as a tragedy . But that he shewed a greater mastery in the one than the other , I cannot allow , nor is it generally felt . The labour which the ...
... tragedies , is but natural . This is only saying that a comedy is not so serious a thing as a tragedy . But that he shewed a greater mastery in the one than the other , I cannot allow , nor is it generally felt . The labour which the ...
Page 359
... tragedy seemed almost afraid to know itself , and certainly did not stand where it had done a hundred and fifty years before . It had degenerated by regular and studied gradations into the most frigid , insipid , and insignificant of ...
... tragedy seemed almost afraid to know itself , and certainly did not stand where it had done a hundred and fifty years before . It had degenerated by regular and studied gradations into the most frigid , insipid , and insignificant of ...
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... tragedy ( 1756 ) by John Home ( 1724-1808 ) . For a more extended criticism by Hazlitt see his introduction to the play in Oxberry's New English Drama , in vol . ix . of the present edition . · 360. Decorum is the principal thing ...
... tragedy ( 1756 ) by John Home ( 1724-1808 ) . For a more extended criticism by Hazlitt see his introduction to the play in Oxberry's New English Drama , in vol . ix . of the present edition . · 360. Decorum is the principal thing ...
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