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" Garden with a second play, She Stoops to Conquer. The manager was not without great difficulty induced to bring this piece out. The sentimental comedy still reigned, and Goldsmith's comedies were not sentimental The Goodnatured Man had been too funny... "
New Biographies of Illustrious Men - Page 222
1857 - 408 pages
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Biographical and Historical Sketches

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1857 - 348 pages
...Conquer. The manager was not without great difficulty induced to bring this piece out. The sentimental comedy still reigned, and Goldsmith's comedies were...constant roar of laughter. If any bigoted admirer of Kelly and Cumberland ventured to hiss or groan, he was speedily silenced by a general cry of " Turn...
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The Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.: With a Life

Oliver Goldsmith, Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1857 - 304 pages
...Conquer. The manager was not without great difficulty induced to bring this piece out. The sentimental comedy still reigned, and Goldsmith's comedies were...constant roar of laughter. If any bigoted admirer of Kelly and Cumberland ventured to hiss or groan he was speedily silenced by a general cry of " turn...
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Biographical essays

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1857 - 340 pages
...Conquer. The manager was not without great difficulty induced to bring this piece out. The sentimental comedy still reigned, and Goldsmith's comedies were...sober when compared with the rich drollery of She i Stoops to Conquer, which is , in truth , an incomparable farce in five acts. On this occasion, however,...
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Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays and Poems, Volume 3

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1860 - 1088 pages
...Conquer." The manager was not without great difficulty induced to bring this piece out. The sentimental comedy still reigned ; and Goldsmith's comedies were...constant roar of laughter. If any bigoted admirer of Kelly and Cumberland ventured to hiss or groan, he was speedily silenced by a general cry of * turn...
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The Miscellaneous Writings of Lord Macaulay: Contributions to the Edinburgh ...

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 458 pages
...Conquer." The manager was not without great difficulty induced to bring this piece out. The sentimental comedy still reigned ; and Goldsmith's comedies were...constant roar of laughter. If any bigoted admirer of Kelly and Cumberland ventured to hiss or groan, he was speedily silenced by a general cry of " turn...
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The Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With a Life

Oliver Goldsmith, Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1862 - 328 pages
...Conquer. The manager was not without great difficulty induced to bring this piece out. The sentimental comedy still reigned, and Goldsmith's comedies were...constant roar of laughter. If any bigoted admirer of Kelly and Cumberland ventured to hiss or groan, he was speedily silenced by a general cry of " turn...
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The British Poets, Volume 6

1865 - 342 pages
...Conquer. The manager was not without great difficulty induced to bring this piece out. The sentimental comedy still reigned, and Goldsmith's comedies were...constant roar of laughter. If any bigoted admirer of Kelly and Cumberland ventured to hiss or groan, he was speedily silenced by a general cry of " turn...
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The miscellaneous writings of lord Macaulay [ed. by T.F. Ellis].

Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1865 - 488 pages
...sentimental comedy still reigned ; and Goldsmith's comedies were not sentimental. The " Gooduatured Man " had been too funny to succeed : yet the mirth...constant roar of laughter. If any bigoted admirer of Kelly and Cumberland ventured to hiss or groan, he was speedily silenced by a general cry of "turn...
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The Miscellaneous Writings of Lord Macaulay

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1865 - 458 pages
...Conquer." The manager was not without great difficulty induced to bring this piece out. The sentimental comedy still reigned ; and Goldsmith's comedies were...had been too funny to succeed ; yet the mirth of the " Goodnatarei Man " was sober when compared with the rich drollery of "She Stoops to Conquer," which...
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The works of lord Macaulay, complete, ed. by lady Trevelyan, Volume 7

Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1866 - 730 pages
...Conquer." The manager was not without great difficulty induced to bring this piece out. The sentimental comedy still reigned ; and Goldsmith's comedies were...constant roar of laughter. If any bigoted admirer of Kelly and Cumberland ventured to hiss or groan, he was speedily silenced by a general cry of " turn...
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