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Page 89
His other pieces , Love and a Bottle , and the Twin Rivals , are not on a par with these ; and are no longer in possession of the stage . The public are , after all , not the worst judges . - Farquhar's Letters , prefixed to the ...
His other pieces , Love and a Bottle , and the Twin Rivals , are not on a par with these ; and are no longer in possession of the stage . The public are , after all , not the worst judges . - Farquhar's Letters , prefixed to the ...
Page 90
He does not think it enough that the stage shews vice its own image , scorn its own feature , ' unless they are damned at the same instant , and carried off ( like Don Juan ) by real devils to the infernal regions , before the faces of ...
He does not think it enough that the stage shews vice its own image , scorn its own feature , ' unless they are damned at the same instant , and carried off ( like Don Juan ) by real devils to the infernal regions , before the faces of ...
Page 246
In this respect , indeed , some of his more obscure contemporaries have the advantage over Shakespear himself , inasmuch as we have never seen their works represented on the stage ; and there is no stage - trick to remind us of it .
In this respect , indeed , some of his more obscure contemporaries have the advantage over Shakespear himself , inasmuch as we have never seen their works represented on the stage ; and there is no stage - trick to remind us of it .
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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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