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You were called lusty Shallow then , cousin . Shallow . I was called any thing , and I would have done any thing indeed , and roundly too . There was I , and little John Doit of Staffordshire , and black George Bare , and Francis ...
You were called lusty Shallow then , cousin . Shallow . I was called any thing , and I would have done any thing indeed , and roundly too . There was I , and little John Doit of Staffordshire , and black George Bare , and Francis ...
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It is in this respect , chiefly , that it differs from the comedy of a later , and ( what is called ) a more refined period . Genteel comedy is the comedy of fashionable life , and of artificial character and manners .
It is in this respect , chiefly , that it differs from the comedy of a later , and ( what is called ) a more refined period . Genteel comedy is the comedy of fashionable life , and of artificial character and manners .
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... the authors of the Mayor of Garratt and the Agreeable Surprise . If Foote has been called our English Aristophanes , O'Keeffe might well be called our English Moliere . The scale of the modern writer 166 LECTURES ON THE COMIC WRITERS.
... the authors of the Mayor of Garratt and the Agreeable Surprise . If Foote has been called our English Aristophanes , O'Keeffe might well be called our English Moliere . The scale of the modern writer 166 LECTURES ON THE COMIC WRITERS.
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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 California |
| Digitized | 16 Jul 2007 |
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