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The fixing of a norm sharpened their sense of the ridiculous , it made satire possible , it added a new kind of awareness to life to replace what was lost , even while its main function was to make people conform to a pattern .
The fixing of a norm sharpened their sense of the ridiculous , it made satire possible , it added a new kind of awareness to life to replace what was lost , even while its main function was to make people conform to a pattern .
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A common feature in all tragedies is a sense of disaster . A feature of very many is , at the end , some mitigation of this sense of disaster , some reconciling of the audience to the experience which they have witnessed and shared .
A common feature in all tragedies is a sense of disaster . A feature of very many is , at the end , some mitigation of this sense of disaster , some reconciling of the audience to the experience which they have witnessed and shared .
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He genuinely enjoyed the landscape , first , for its beauty of line and color , and second , for the pleasurable associations that it recalled , but without any sense of mysterious significance . Indeed , he sought to exclude all truth ...
He genuinely enjoyed the landscape , first , for its beauty of line and color , and second , for the pleasurable associations that it recalled , but without any sense of mysterious significance . Indeed , he sought to exclude all truth ...
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David Garrick 17171779 | 80 |
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| Title | The Critical Temper: From Milton to Romantic literature Library of literary criticism Volume 2 of The Critical Temper: A Survey of Modern Criticism on English and American Literature from the Beginnings to the Twentieth Century, Martin Tucker |
| Editor | Martin Tucker |
| Publisher | Ungar, 1969 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 29 Feb 2008 |
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