The Good Natur'd Man and She Stoops to ConquerD.C. Heath, 1903 - 285 pages |
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... was the commending of goodness and virtue rather than the ridicule of vice and folly . Under the title of genteel , " or " sentimental " comedy , this 66 epoch in our theatrical annals , is generally admitted . xii Introduction.
... was the commending of goodness and virtue rather than the ridicule of vice and folly . Under the title of genteel , " or " sentimental " comedy , this 66 epoch in our theatrical annals , is generally admitted . xii Introduction.
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... Sentimental Comedy , in which the virtues of Private Life are exhibited , rather than the Vices exposed , and the Distresses rather than the Faults of Mankind make our interest in the piece . " He contends that there has been change ...
... Sentimental Comedy , in which the virtues of Private Life are exhibited , rather than the Vices exposed , and the Distresses rather than the Faults of Mankind make our interest in the piece . " He contends that there has been change ...
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... sentimental com- edy entitled False Delicacy . Becoming subsequently reconciled to Colman , he contrived to secure a tacit understanding that Goldsmith's play should not be produced until Kelly's piece had enjoyed a preliminary run ...
... sentimental com- edy entitled False Delicacy . Becoming subsequently reconciled to Colman , he contrived to secure a tacit understanding that Goldsmith's play should not be produced until Kelly's piece had enjoyed a preliminary run ...
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... sentimentality was not even | " scotched . " On the contrary , it had assumed a more definite form , and acquired new forces of life . 66 In all this , the view of posterity must , of necessity , differ from contemporary opinion ...
... sentimentality was not even | " scotched . " On the contrary , it had assumed a more definite form , and acquired new forces of life . 66 In all this , the view of posterity must , of necessity , differ from contemporary opinion ...
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... sentimental school was , however , recruited by an abler adherent , Richard Cumberland , whose West In- dian ( 1771 ) represents the high water - mark in its kind . By this time Goldsmith was recovering his old stage ambition . Whether ...
... sentimental school was , however , recruited by an abler adherent , Richard Cumberland , whose West In- dian ( 1771 ) represents the high water - mark in its kind . By this time Goldsmith was recovering his old stage ambition . Whether ...
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Page 152 - Neville. ,A fortune like mine, which chiefly consists in jewels, is no such mighty temptation. But, at any rate, if my dear Hastings be but constant, I make no doubt to be too hard for her at last. However, I let her suppose that I am in love with her son, and she never once dreams that my affections are fixed upon another. Miss Hard. My good brother holds out stoutly. I could almost love him for hating you so.
Page 155 - I am obligated to dance a bear, a man may be a gentleman for all that. May this be my poison if my bear ever dances but to the very genteelest of tunes — Water Parted, or the minuet in Ariadne.
Page 148 - Then to be plain with you, Kate, I expect the young gentleman I have chosen to be your husband from town this very day. I have his father's letter, in which he informs me his son is set out, and that he intends to follow himself shortly after.
Page 224 - I'm sure I should be sorry (pretending to cry) if he left the family upon my account.
Page xxvi - By inscribing this slight performance to you, I do not mean so much to compliment you as myself. It may do me some honour to inform the public, that I have lived many years in intimacy with you. It may serve the interests of mankind also to inform them, that the greatest wit may be found in a character, without impairing the most unaffected piety.
Page 207 - In the first place I shall be seen, and that is no small advantage to a girl who brings her face to market. Then I shall perhaps make an acquaintance, and that's no small victory gained over one who never addresses any but the wildest of her sex.
Page 163 - You must not be so talkative, Diggory. You must be all attention to the guests. You must hear us talk, and not think of talking...
Page 127 - Nor is this rule without the strongest foundation in nature, as the distresses of the mean by no means affect us so strongly as the calamities of the great. When tragedy exhibits to us some great man fallen from his height, and struggling with want and adversity, we feel his situation in the same manner as we suppose he himself must feel, and our pity is increased in proportion to the height from which he fell.
Page 150 - Lud, this news of papa's puts me all in a flutter. Young, handsome; these he put last, but I put them foremost. Sensible, good-natured; I like all that. But then, reserved and sheepish ; -that's much against him. Yet can't he be cured of his timidity, by being taught to be\ proud of his wife?
Page 174 - Sir, you have a right to command here. Here, Roger, bring us the bill of fare for to-night's supper: I believe it's drawn out. — Your manner, Mr. Hastings, puts me in mind of my uncle, Colonel Wallop. It was a saying of his, that no man was sure of his supper till he had eaten it.