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The preface to The Good - Natured Man asserts that French comedy has already become “ very elevated and sentimental , " and hopes that false refinement will not have the same effect in the British theater , of banishing humor and ...
The preface to The Good - Natured Man asserts that French comedy has already become “ very elevated and sentimental , " and hopes that false refinement will not have the same effect in the British theater , of banishing humor and ...
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“ Which deserves the preference : the weeping sentimental comedy , so much in fashion at present , or the laughing and even low comedy , which seems to have been last exhibited by Vanbrugh and Cibber ? " ( 3 : 210 ) .
“ Which deserves the preference : the weeping sentimental comedy , so much in fashion at present , or the laughing and even low comedy , which seems to have been last exhibited by Vanbrugh and Cibber ? " ( 3 : 210 ) .
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Cogently defends the play against the charge of sentimentality ; Goldsmith ridicules the typical sentimental hero and shows the importance of moral discrimination . Hilles , F. W. , ed . Portraits by Sir Joshua Reynolds .
Cogently defends the play against the charge of sentimentality ; Goldsmith ridicules the typical sentimental hero and shows the importance of moral discrimination . Hilles , F. W. , ed . Portraits by Sir Joshua Reynolds .
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| Title | Oliver Goldsmith Revisited Issue 487 of Twayne's English authors series |
| Authors | Former Chair of English Peter Dixon, Peter Dixon |
| Contributor | Oliver Goldsmith |
| Edition | revised |
| Publisher | Twayne Publishers, 1991 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 7 Mar 2008 |
| ISBN | 0805770089, 9780805770087 |
| Length | 157 pages |
| Subjects | › Literary Criticism / General |
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