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... tragedy would , it was supposed , outshine the glories of his Rienzi ? Every body says that the English stage is in the lowest state of degradation ; many add that our neighbours are no better off : let us just in- quire into the causes ...
... tragedy would , it was supposed , outshine the glories of his Rienzi ? Every body says that the English stage is in the lowest state of degradation ; many add that our neighbours are no better off : let us just in- quire into the causes ...
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... tragedy . The fashionable novelists will perform the same office for genteel comedy ; and , if Boz has many followers , we may bid a long farewell to the whole generation of farces . It would be the most absurd thing in the world to ...
... tragedy . The fashionable novelists will perform the same office for genteel comedy ; and , if Boz has many followers , we may bid a long farewell to the whole generation of farces . It would be the most absurd thing in the world to ...
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... tragedies by the admirable burletta of Tom Thumb , and he now attacked Richardson in Joseph Andrews . The parody is immortal , but Pamela has sunk into utter neglect . Like Gifford's Baviad and Mæviad , the satire has survived the folly ...
... tragedies by the admirable burletta of Tom Thumb , and he now attacked Richardson in Joseph Andrews . The parody is immortal , but Pamela has sunk into utter neglect . Like Gifford's Baviad and Mæviad , the satire has survived the folly ...
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... tragedy in which the actors are few , and derive no celebrity or lustre from their social rank , but it is a tragedy so full , so rapid , so rich in terror and in tears , that Euripides or Sophocles would not have disavowed it . The ...
... tragedy in which the actors are few , and derive no celebrity or lustre from their social rank , but it is a tragedy so full , so rapid , so rich in terror and in tears , that Euripides or Sophocles would not have disavowed it . The ...
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... tragedy de- prived of its proper form , and in some degree injured by the softening down of the hero's character to a standard which con- ventional laws have imposed upon moralists . The stern sophist , the unrepenting murderer , the ...
... tragedy de- prived of its proper form , and in some degree injured by the softening down of the hero's character to a standard which con- ventional laws have imposed upon moralists . The stern sophist , the unrepenting murderer , the ...
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