The Complete Works of William Hazlitt, Volume 6J. M. Dent and Sons, Limited, 1931 |
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... period of our comedy was just after the age of Charles 11. when the town first became tainted with the affectation of the manners and conversation of fashionable life , and before the distinction between rusticity and elegance , art and ...
... period of our comedy was just after the age of Charles 11. when the town first became tainted with the affectation of the manners and conversation of fashionable life , and before the distinction between rusticity and elegance , art and ...
Page 122
... period . In despotic countries , human nature is not of sufficient importance to be studied or described . The canaille are objects rather of disgust than curiosity ; and there are no middle classes . The works of Racine and Moliere are ...
... period . In despotic countries , human nature is not of sufficient importance to be studied or described . The canaille are objects rather of disgust than curiosity ; and there are no middle classes . The works of Racine and Moliere are ...
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... period that has elapsed since . If his contemporaries , with their united strength , would hardly make one Shakespear , certain it is that all his successors would not make half a one . With the exception of a single writer , Otway ...
... period that has elapsed since . If his contemporaries , with their united strength , would hardly make one Shakespear , certain it is that all his successors would not make half a one . With the exception of a single writer , Otway ...
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LECTURE I | 5 |
LECTURE II | 30 |
On Cowley Butler Suckling Etherege | 70 |
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