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Pagina 4
... period of sheer destruction . It is tacitly assumed by a school of distinguished philo- sophical writers that we have arrived at a stage in the world's history in which it is possible to take a positive and scientific view of human ...
... period of sheer destruction . It is tacitly assumed by a school of distinguished philo- sophical writers that we have arrived at a stage in the world's history in which it is possible to take a positive and scientific view of human ...
Pagina 13
... period illustrate this general inclination to spurious romance . If ever there was a time when the ideal of monarchy was degraded and the instincts of chivalrous action discouraged , it was in the reign of Charles II . Absorbed as he ...
... period illustrate this general inclination to spurious romance . If ever there was a time when the ideal of monarchy was degraded and the instincts of chivalrous action discouraged , it was in the reign of Charles II . Absorbed as he ...
Pagina 15
... period poured forth their real feelings without reserve in their comedies . So great , indeed , is the gulf that separates our own manners from theirs , that some critics have endeavoured to defend the comic dramatists of the ...
... period poured forth their real feelings without reserve in their comedies . So great , indeed , is the gulf that separates our own manners from theirs , that some critics have endeavoured to defend the comic dramatists of the ...
Pagina 16
... period . It is sufficient to quote against Lamb the witty and severe criticism of Steele in the Spectator upon Etherege's Man of the Mode : - " It cannot be denied but that the negligence of every- thing which engages the attention of ...
... period . It is sufficient to quote against Lamb the witty and severe criticism of Steele in the Spectator upon Etherege's Man of the Mode : - " It cannot be denied but that the negligence of every- thing which engages the attention of ...
Pagina 17
... only society which at that period could boast of anything like organisation . The press , which now enables 1 Spectator , No. 65 . public opinion to exercise so powerful a control over the I. ] 17 LETTERS AFTER THE RESTORATION .
... only society which at that period could boast of anything like organisation . The press , which now enables 1 Spectator , No. 65 . public opinion to exercise so powerful a control over the I. ] 17 LETTERS AFTER THE RESTORATION .
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