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professed want of principle gives a sort of zest and high seasoning to their confidential communications , which Vanbrugh could supply as well as any body . But he could not do without the taint of grossness and licentiousness .
professed want of principle gives a sort of zest and high seasoning to their confidential communications , which Vanbrugh could supply as well as any body . But he could not do without the taint of grossness and licentiousness .
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The character of Falkland is a sort of apotheosis of the love of fame . The gay , the gallant Falkland lives only in the good opinion of good men ; for this he adorns his soul with virtue , and tarnishes it with crime ; he lives only ...
The character of Falkland is a sort of apotheosis of the love of fame . The gay , the gallant Falkland lives only in the good opinion of good men ; for this he adorns his soul with virtue , and tarnishes it with crime ; he lives only ...
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The attempt at getting up genteel comedy at present is a sort of Galvanic experiment , a revival of the dead.1 I have observed in a former Lecture , that the most spirited æra of I have only to add , by way of explanation on this ...
The attempt at getting up genteel comedy at present is a sort of Galvanic experiment , a revival of the dead.1 I have observed in a former Lecture , that the most spirited æra of I have only to add , by way of explanation on this ...
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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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