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THE MAID'S TRAGEDY is one of the poorest . The nature of the distress is of the most disagreeable and repulsive kind ; and not the less so , because it is entirely improbable and uncalled - for . There is no sort of reason , or no ...
THE MAID'S TRAGEDY is one of the poorest . The nature of the distress is of the most disagreeable and repulsive kind ; and not the less so , because it is entirely improbable and uncalled - for . There is no sort of reason , or no ...
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There is scarcely a single page of their tragedy which fairly throws nature open to you . It is tragedy in masquerade . We never get beyond conjecture and reasoning - beyond the general impression of the situation of the persons ...
There is scarcely a single page of their tragedy which fairly throws nature open to you . It is tragedy in masquerade . We never get beyond conjecture and reasoning - beyond the general impression of the situation of the persons ...
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The German tragedy ( and our own , which is only a branch of it ) aims at effect , and produces it often in the highest degree ; and it does this by going all the lengths not only of instinctive feeling , but of speculative opinion ...
The German tragedy ( and our own , which is only a branch of it ) aims at effect , and produces it often in the highest degree ; and it does this by going all the lengths not only of instinctive feeling , but of speculative opinion ...
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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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