 | 1804 - 188 pages
...name of Sentimental Comedy, in which the virtues of private life are exhibited, rather than the vices exposed ; and the distresses rather than the faults...success, perhaps from their novelty, and also from their flattering every man in his favourite foible. In these plays almost all the characters are j£ood,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 492 pages
...name of Sentimental Comedy, in which the virtues of private life are exhibited, rather than the vices exposed ; and the distresses rather than the faults...success, perhaps from their novelty, and also from their flattering every man in his favourite. foible. In these plays almost all the characters are good, and... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1809 - 350 pages
...name of Sentimental Comedy, in which the virtues of private life are exhibited, "rather than the vices exposed ; and the distresses rather than the faults...success, perhaps from their novelty, and also from their flattering every man in his favourite foible. In these plays almost all the characters are good, and... | |
 | Manual - 1809 - 324 pages
...exhibited rather than the vices exposed, and the distresses rather than the faults of mankind make an interest in the piece. These comedies have had of...success, perhaps from their novelty, and also from their flattering every man in his favourite foible. In these plays almost all the characters are good, and... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1820 - 514 pages
...name of sentimental comedy, in which the virtues of private life are exhibited, rather than the vices exposed; and the distresses, rather than the faults...success, perhaps from their novelty, and also from their flattering every man in his favourite foible. In these plays almost all the characters are good, and... | |
 | 1821 - 384 pages
...name of sentimental comedy, in which the virtues of private life are exhibited, rather than the vices exposed; and the distresses, rather than the faults...success, perhaps from their novelty, and also from their flattering every man in his favourite foible. In these plays almost all the characters are good, and... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1825 - 448 pages
...name of sentimental comedy, in which the virtues of private life are exhibited, rather than the vices exposed ; and the distresses rather than the faults...success, perhaps from their novelty, and also from their flattering every man in his favourite foible. In these plays almost all the characters are good, and... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1825 - 440 pages
...name of sentimental comedy, in which the virtues of private life are exhibited, rather than the vices exposed ; and the distresses rather than the faults...la^te great success, perhaps from their novelty, and also%om their flattering every man in his favourite foible. In these plays almost all the characters... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1840 - 504 pages
...name of sentimental comedy, in which the virtues of private life are exhibited, rather than the vices exposed ; and the distresses rather than the faults...success, perhaps from their novelty, and also from theii flattering every man in his favourite foible. In these plays almost all the characters are good,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 398 pages
...name of sentimental comedy, in which the virtues of private life are exhibited, rather than the vices exposed ; and the distresses rather than the faults...success, perhaps from their novelty, and also from their flattering every man in his favourite foible. In these plays almost all the characters are good, and... | |
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Yet, notwithstanding this weight of authority, and the universal practice of former ages, a new species of dramatic composition has been introduced under the name of sentimental comedy, in which the virtues of private life are exhibited, rather than the... 
