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Less satiric than the best of Wycherley , less humorous than the best of Shadwell , less witty than the best of Congreve , it is nevertheless nearly perfect as an example of brisk , clever , comedy of manners .
Less satiric than the best of Wycherley , less humorous than the best of Shadwell , less witty than the best of Congreve , it is nevertheless nearly perfect as an example of brisk , clever , comedy of manners .
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This reconciliation , this mitigating of the sense of disaster , is restricted to the human level , the level on which tragedy commonly moves ( for the reference to God is in relation less to the outcome than to Samson's personal ...
This reconciliation , this mitigating of the sense of disaster , is restricted to the human level , the level on which tragedy commonly moves ( for the reference to God is in relation less to the outcome than to Samson's personal ...
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There is a charmed stagnation about the whole epic — the more the characters do the less gets done , the less they have to say the more they talk , the harder they think the softer they get , facts have an unholy tendency to unwind and ...
There is a charmed stagnation about the whole epic — the more the characters do the less gets done , the less they have to say the more they talk , the harder they think the softer they get , facts have an unholy tendency to unwind and ...
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