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Oliver Goldsmith Austin Dobson. PREFACE WHEN I undertook to write a comedy , I confess I was strongly prepossessed in favour of the poets of the last age , and strove to imitate them . The term , genteel comedy , was then unknown amongst ...
Oliver Goldsmith Austin Dobson. PREFACE WHEN I undertook to write a comedy , I confess I was strongly prepossessed in favour of the poets of the last age , and strove to imitate them . The term , genteel comedy , was then unknown amongst ...
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... Comedy should excite our laughter by ridiculously exhibiting the Follies of the Lower Part of Mankind . Boileau , one of the best modern Critics , asserts , that Comedy will not admit of Tragic Distress . Le Comique , ennemi des soupirs ...
... Comedy should excite our laughter by ridiculously exhibiting the Follies of the Lower Part of Mankind . Boileau , one of the best modern Critics , asserts , that Comedy will not admit of Tragic Distress . Le Comique , ennemi des soupirs ...
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... Comedy aims at touching our Passions without the power of being truly pathetic in this manner we are likely to lose one great source of Entertainment on the Stage ; for while the Comic Poet is invading the province of the Tragic Muse ...
... Comedy aims at touching our Passions without the power of being truly pathetic in this manner we are likely to lose one great source of Entertainment on the Stage ; for while the Comic Poet is invading the province of the Tragic Muse ...
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THE DESERTED VILLAGE | 16 |
Part of a Prologue written and spoken by the Poet Laberius | 53 |
On Seeing Mrs perform in the Character of | 59 |
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