The Comedy of MannersG. Bell & sons, Limited, 1913 - 308 pagina's |
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accepted agreeable artist attitude audience Brisk character Charles Cibber comedy of manners comic dramatists Congreve Congreve's contemporaries Country Wife critics Dorimant Double Dealer dramatic Dryden Duchess Duke edition Edmund Gosse English comedy Etherege's expression Farquhar fashion follies fortune gentleman GEORGE FARQUHAR Grace greve Hazlitt honour Horner humour husband imagination impudent indecent Jeremy Collier Lady Brute Lady Froth Lamb Leigh Hunt letter literary lived Lord Macaulay Macaulay's madam marriage married Memoir merit Mirabell mistress Molière moral never Old Bachelor passage passion period Pinchwife Plain Dealer play pleasure poet Pope prose Provoked Wife Ratisbon reflexion Restoration comedy satire says scenes Short View Sir Fopling Sir George Etherege Sir Harry social society spirit Squire style Swift tell theatre thing thought tion to-day Tonson town W. C. Ward Wilks William Congreve woman writes written wrote Wycher Wycherley's young
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Pagina 179 - Great Jonson did by strength of judgment please ; Yet, doubling Fletcher's force, he wants his ease. In differing talents both adorn'd their age ; One for the study, t'other for the stage.
Pagina 16 - THE artificial Comedy, or Comedy of manners, is quite extinct on our stage. Congreve and Farquhar show their heads once in seven years only, to be exploded and put down instantly. The times cannot bear them.
Pagina 18 - I confess for myself that (with no great delinquencies to answer for) I am glad for a season to take an airing beyond the diocese of the strict conscience, - not to live always in the precincts of the law-courts, - but now and then, for a dream-while or so, to imagine a world with no meddling restrictions - to get into recesses, whither the hunter cannot follow me Secret shades Of woody Ida's inmost grove.
Pagina 132 - Nay, nay, I have known you deny your china before now, but you shan't put me off so. Come.
Pagina 138 - I'm resolved to make you out of love with the play. I say, the lewdest, filthiest thing is his china ; nay, I will never forgive the beastly author his china. He has quite taken away the reputation of poor china itself, and...
Pagina 196 - Trifles ! As liberty to pay and receive visits to and from whom I please ; to write and receive letters without interrogatories or wry faces on your part ; to wear what I please ; and choose conversation with regard only to my own taste; to have no obligation upon me to converse with wits...
Pagina 156 - But there is one thing at which I am more concerned than all the false criticisms that are made upon me ; and that is, some of the ladies are offended. I am heartily sorry for it ; for I declare, I would rather disoblige all the critics in the world than one of the fair sex. They are concerned that- 1 have represented some women vicious and affected.
Pagina 195 - Ah! idle creature, get up when you will— and d'ye hear, I won't be called names after I'm married; positively I won't be called names.
Pagina 24 - The immoral English writers of the seventeenth century are indeed much less excusable than those of Greece and Rome. But the worst English writings of the seventeenth century are decent, compared with much that has been bequeathed to us by Greece and Rome. Plato, we have little doubt, was a much better man than Sir George Etherege. But Plato has written things at which Sir George Etherege would have shuddered.
Pagina 268 - Law! what Law can search into the remote Abyss of Nature? what Evidence can prove the unaccountable Disaffections of Wedlock ? — Can a Jury sum up the endless Aversions that are rooted in our Souls, or can a Bench give Judgment upon Antipathies?