The Comedy of MannersG. Bell & sons, Limited, 1913 - 308 pagina's |
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Pagina 4
... write intentionally lewd and scandalous comedy ; and that this same comedy of the reaction continued to develop and reached perfection at a period when its historical explanation was thoroughly exhausted . Congreve's first comedy The ...
... write intentionally lewd and scandalous comedy ; and that this same comedy of the reaction continued to develop and reached perfection at a period when its historical explanation was thoroughly exhausted . Congreve's first comedy The ...
Pagina 9
... writes particularly of Sir George Etherege : " If men of wit who think fit to write for the stage . . . instead of this pitiful way of giving delight , would turn their thoughts upon raising it from such good natural impulses as are in ...
... writes particularly of Sir George Etherege : " If men of wit who think fit to write for the stage . . . instead of this pitiful way of giving delight , would turn their thoughts upon raising it from such good natural impulses as are in ...
Pagina 11
... writes , " was not tenable : whatever glosses he might use for the defence or palliation of single passages , the general tenour and tendency of his plays must always be condemned . It is acknowledged with universal conviction that the ...
... writes , " was not tenable : whatever glosses he might use for the defence or palliation of single passages , the general tenour and tendency of his plays must always be condemned . It is acknowledged with universal conviction that the ...
Pagina 27
... writes in the Essay on Comedy , " whose humour delighted in floating a galleon paradox and wafting it as far as it would go , bewails the extinction of our artificial comedy , like a poet sighing over the vanished splendour of ...
... writes in the Essay on Comedy , " whose humour delighted in floating a galleon paradox and wafting it as far as it would go , bewails the extinction of our artificial comedy , like a poet sighing over the vanished splendour of ...
Pagina 33
... writes to the Lord Cham- berlain : " The pleasure you have given me makes me forgive the malice you have showed in remind- ing me of my being old . " But his philosophy was equal to his need . In September , 1687 , he writes to an ...
... writes to the Lord Cham- berlain : " The pleasure you have given me makes me forgive the malice you have showed in remind- ing me of my being old . " But his philosophy was equal to his need . In September , 1687 , he writes to an ...
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accepted agreeable artist attitude audience Brisk character Charles Cibber comedy of manners comic dramatists Congreve Congreve's contemporary Country Wife critics Dorimant Double Dealer dramatic Dryden Duchess Duke edition Edmund Gosse English comedy Etherege's expression Farquhar fashion follies fortune gentleman 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 Medley Memoir merit Mirabell mistress Molière moral never Old Bachelor passage passion perfect period Plain Dealer 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 WILLIAM WYCHERLEY woman writes written wrote Wycher Wycherley's young
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Pagina 194 - I'll fly and be followed to the last moment. Though I am upon the very verge of matrimony, I ^"expect you should solicit me as much as if I were wavering at the grate of a monastery, with one foot over the threshold.
Pagina 167 - And just abandoning the ungrateful stage : Unprofitably kept at Heaven's expense, I live a rent-charge on his providence. But you, whom every Muse and Grace adorn, Whom I foresee to better fortune born, Be kind to my remains ; and, oh defend, Against your judgment, your departed friend ! Let not the insulting foe my fame pursue, But shade those laurels which descend to you : And take for tribute what these lines express ; You merit more, nor could my love do less.
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 197 - Your bill of fare is something advanced in this latter account.— Well, have I liberty to offer conditions — that when you are dwindled into a wife, I may not be beyond measure enlarged into a husband?
Pagina 178 - The Double-Dealer." WELL, then, the promised hour is come at last ; The present age of wit obscures the past : Strong were our sires, and as they fought they writ, Conquering with force of arms and dint of wit ; Theirs was the giant race before the flood ; And thus, when Charles return'd, our empire stood.