History of English Literature, Volume 1Holt & Williams, 1871 |
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... comedy , the abortive drama under Dryden and Wycherley , the vile Greek importations , the groping elaborate efforts , the scant half - graces under Ronsard and the Pleiad . So much we can say with confidence , that the unknown ...
... comedy , the abortive drama under Dryden and Wycherley , the vile Greek importations , the groping elaborate efforts , the scant half - graces under Ronsard and the Pleiad . So much we can say with confidence , that the unknown ...
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... comedy , indelicate certainly , but so free and easy ! Such a one is the portrait of the Wife of Bath , who has buried five husbands : ' Bold was hire face , and fayre and rede of hew , She was a worthy woman all hire live ; Housbondes ...
... comedy , indelicate certainly , but so free and easy ! Such a one is the portrait of the Wife of Bath , who has buried five husbands : ' Bold was hire face , and fayre and rede of hew , She was a worthy woman all hire live ; Housbondes ...
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... comedy of manners ; to - morrow , he will have no pleasure but in curious events , smooth allegories , amorous discussions , imitated from the French , or learned moralities from the ancients . Alternately he is an observer and a ...
... comedy of manners ; to - morrow , he will have no pleasure but in curious events , smooth allegories , amorous discussions , imitated from the French , or learned moralities from the ancients . Alternately he is an observer and a ...
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... comedy is not confined to the theatre ; the great of the realm and the queen her- self become actors . The cravings of the imagination are so keen , that the court becomes a stage . Under James I. , every year , on Twelfth- day , the ...
... comedy is not confined to the theatre ; the great of the realm and the queen her- self become actors . The cravings of the imagination are so keen , that the court becomes a stage . Under James I. , every year , on Twelfth- day , the ...
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... comedy played by the lords of the realm , showed , like the pictures of Rubens , Jordaens , and their Flemish contemporaries , so open an appeal to the senses , so com- plete a return to nature , that our chilled and gloomy age is ...
... comedy played by the lords of the realm , showed , like the pictures of Rubens , Jordaens , and their Flemish contemporaries , so open an appeal to the senses , so com- plete a return to nature , that our chilled and gloomy age is ...
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