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16-17 > Love's Last Shift is a play which belongs to two traditions — the tradition of the comedy of manners , which culminated in the work of Etherege and Congreve , and the sentimental tradition , which flourished during the ...
16-17 > Love's Last Shift is a play which belongs to two traditions — the tradition of the comedy of manners , which culminated in the work of Etherege and Congreve , and the sentimental tradition , which flourished during the ...
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The compassion of Zelis in her flight from London was " sentimental only as it served to protract the immediate enjoyment ” of a situation . The sentimentalist , in general , is seeking a glib palliation for an indulgent Epicureanism of ...
The compassion of Zelis in her flight from London was " sentimental only as it served to protract the immediate enjoyment ” of a situation . The sentimentalist , in general , is seeking a glib palliation for an indulgent Epicureanism of ...
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These are the qualities that in combination represent the dramatic formula Steele evolved , and only one of them ( the appeal to sympathy ) was a uniform characteristic of earlier " sentimental ” comedy .
These are the qualities that in combination represent the dramatic formula Steele evolved , and only one of them ( the appeal to sympathy ) was a uniform characteristic of earlier " sentimental ” comedy .
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