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therefore , that the golden 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 ...
therefore , that the golden 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 ...
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Our domestic tragedy , and our earliest periodical works , appeared a little before the same period . In despotic countries , human nature is not of sufficient importance to be studied or described . The canaille are objects rather of ...
Our domestic tragedy , and our earliest periodical works , appeared a little before the same period . In despotic countries , human nature is not of sufficient importance to be studied or described . The canaille are objects rather of ...
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If we allow , for argument's sake ( or for truth's , which is better ) , that he was in himself equal to all his competitors put together ; yet there was more dramatic excellence in that age than in the whole of the period that has ...
If we allow , for argument's sake ( or for truth's , which is better ) , that he was in himself equal to all his competitors put together ; yet there was more dramatic excellence in that age than in the whole of the period that has ...
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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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