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... comedy . This uncertainty in his audience creates here , as in The Deserted Village , a corresponding and fatal uncertainty in Goldsmith . He hedges his bets . One strong line of critical opinion has pointed out that although the play ...
... comedy . This uncertainty in his audience creates here , as in The Deserted Village , a corresponding and fatal uncertainty in Goldsmith . He hedges his bets . One strong line of critical opinion has pointed out that although the play ...
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Oliver Goldsmith Tom Davis. PREFACE When I undertook to write a comedy , I confess I was strongly prepos- sessed in favour of the poets of the last age , and strove to imitate them . The term , genteel comedy , was then unknown amongst ...
Oliver Goldsmith Tom Davis. PREFACE When I undertook to write a comedy , I confess I was strongly prepos- sessed in favour of the poets of the last age , and strove to imitate them . The term , genteel comedy , was then unknown amongst ...
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... comedy ' ( 17 ) , and Charles , ' the Captain ' ( 18 ) , who enlisted a year later . Mrs Susannah Nesbitt ( 11 ) was the sister of Henry Thrale the brewer , Dr Johnson's friend . George Baker ( 12 ) , the host , was Reynolds's physician ...
... comedy ' ( 17 ) , and Charles , ' the Captain ' ( 18 ) , who enlisted a year later . Mrs Susannah Nesbitt ( 11 ) was the sister of Henry Thrale the brewer , Dr Johnson's friend . George Baker ( 12 ) , the host , was Reynolds's physician ...
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Prologue of Laberius | 133 |
Description of an Authors BedChamber | 139 |
an Oratorio | 147 |
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