The Complete Works of William Hazlitt, Volume 6J. M. Dent and Sons, Limited, 1931 |
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Page 166
... writers whom I have omitted to mention , but not forgotten they are our two immortal farce - writers , the authors of the Mayor of Garratt and the Agreeable Surprise . If Foote has been called our English Aristophanes , O'Keeffe might ...
... writers whom I have omitted to mention , but not forgotten they are our two immortal farce - writers , the authors of the Mayor of Garratt and the Agreeable Surprise . If Foote has been called our English Aristophanes , O'Keeffe might ...
Page 179
... writers by rote ; but we are shy of looking into their works . Though we seem disposed to think highly of them , and to give them every credit for a masculine and original vein of thought , as a matter of literary courtesy and enlarge ...
... writers by rote ; but we are shy of looking into their works . Though we seem disposed to think highly of them , and to give them every credit for a masculine and original vein of thought , as a matter of literary courtesy and enlarge ...
Page 248
... writers who in some measure departed from the genuine tragic style of the age of Shakespear . They thought less of their subject , and more of themselves , than some others . They had a great and unquestioned command over the stores ...
... writers who in some measure departed from the genuine tragic style of the age of Shakespear . They thought less of their subject , and more of themselves , than some others . They had a great and unquestioned command over the stores ...
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