Sketches of the History of Literature and Learning in England ...: With Specimens of the Principal Writers, Volume 3C. Knight & Company, 1845 |
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... comedy ( As You Find It ) , and some other trifles , his wit does not appear to have ripened with his years , and nothing that he produced ever excited any attention except his college publication in the Phalaris controversy . * Lit ...
... comedy ( As You Find It ) , and some other trifles , his wit does not appear to have ripened with his years , and nothing that he produced ever excited any attention except his college publication in the Phalaris controversy . * Lit ...
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... comedy , all covered with silver fringe , and , according to the laudable custom , gave rise to that fashion . Upon which the brothers , consulting their father's will , to their great astonishment , found these words : Item , I charge ...
... comedy , all covered with silver fringe , and , according to the laudable custom , gave rise to that fashion . Upon which the brothers , consulting their father's will , to their great astonishment , found these words : Item , I charge ...
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... comedy and satire in his usual easy ambling style . With all his liveliness of fancy , he had no grandeur of imagination , as little feeling of the purely graceful or beautiful , no capacity of tender emotion , no sensibility to even ...
... comedy and satire in his usual easy ambling style . With all his liveliness of fancy , he had no grandeur of imagination , as little feeling of the purely graceful or beautiful , no capacity of tender emotion , no sensibility to even ...
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... comedy of The Way of the World , in 1700 : a masquerade and an opera , both of slight import- ance , were the only dramatic pieces he wrote during the rest of his life . The comedy of Congreve has not much character , still less humour ...
... comedy of The Way of the World , in 1700 : a masquerade and an opera , both of slight import- ance , were the only dramatic pieces he wrote during the rest of his life . The comedy of Congreve has not much character , still less humour ...
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... comedy of Love's Last Shift , in 1696 , and was still an occasional writer for the stage after the commence- ment of the reign of George II .; one of his productions , indeed , his tragedy entitled Papal Tyranny , was brought out so ...
... comedy of Love's Last Shift , in 1696 , and was still an occasional writer for the stage after the commence- ment of the reign of George II .; one of his productions , indeed , his tragedy entitled Papal Tyranny , was brought out so ...
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