A History of English Literature: The Middle Ages and the Renascence (650-1660)Macmillan, 1964 - 1469 pages |
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Page 494
... manner and tends to be romantic . The factitious and forced sentiments of the characters reflect , however , with fair accuracy , manners which were new in the Stuart period . The situation on which the play is based is that an absolute ...
... manner and tends to be romantic . The factitious and forced sentiments of the characters reflect , however , with fair accuracy , manners which were new in the Stuart period . The situation on which the play is based is that an absolute ...
Page 796
... manners falls after 1714. Artificially prolonged , comedy after the model of the Restoration survives with Mrs ... manner . The sentimental comedy of Cibber and Steele is therefore a precocious symptom . Its value , moreover , is ...
... manners falls after 1714. Artificially prolonged , comedy after the model of the Restoration survives with Mrs ... manner . The sentimental comedy of Cibber and Steele is therefore a precocious symptom . Its value , moreover , is ...
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... manner shows the bland rationality , the sceptical tolerance of the eighteenth century ; but he has no wish to rule out the claims of the imagination , and likes to call up the past with restrained , sober vigour . His biographical ...
... manner shows the bland rationality , the sceptical tolerance of the eighteenth century ; but he has no wish to rule out the claims of the imagination , and likes to call up the past with restrained , sober vigour . His biographical ...
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ANGLOSAXON LITERATURE 6501066 | 55 |
THE PREROMANTIC PERIOD 177098 | 98 |
BOOK III | 199 |
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