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Page 166
... who was almost entirely devoted to the comedie larmoyante , and who , passing from the light , volatile spirit of his West - Indian to the mawkish sensibility of the Wheel of Fortune , linked the Muse of English comedy to the genius ...
... who was almost entirely devoted to the comedie larmoyante , and who , passing from the light , volatile spirit of his West - Indian to the mawkish sensibility of the Wheel of Fortune , linked the Muse of English comedy to the genius ...
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NOTES LECTURES ON THE ENGLISH COMIC WRITERS HAZLITT's third course of public lectures , composed at Winterslow , and delivered at the Surrey Institution , Great Surrey Street , in November and December 1818 and January 1819.
NOTES LECTURES ON THE ENGLISH COMIC WRITERS HAZLITT's third course of public lectures , composed at Winterslow , and delivered at the Surrey Institution , Great Surrey Street , in November and December 1818 and January 1819.
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In the third edition Hazlitt's account of She Stoops to Conquer , from Oxberry's New English Drama , is inserted . See vol . Ix . of the present edition . Murphy's plays . Arthur Murphy's ( 1730-1805 ) All in the Wrong , 1761 , and Know ...
In the third edition Hazlitt's account of She Stoops to Conquer , from Oxberry's New English Drama , is inserted . See vol . Ix . of the present edition . Murphy's plays . Arthur Murphy's ( 1730-1805 ) All in the Wrong , 1761 , and Know ...
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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 |
| Original from | the University of Virginia |
| Digitized | 6 Jul 2009 |
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