 | 1822 - 734 pages
...receive them on application at our Publishers'. THE ïonfcon № XXVIII. APRIL, 1822. VOL. THE OLD THE artificial Comedy, or Comedy of manners, is quite...characters will not stand the moral test. We screw every thing up to that. Idle gallantry in a fiction, a dream, the passing pageant of an evening, startles... | |
 | Charles Lamb - Essays - 1835 - 440 pages
...ON THE ARTIFICIAL COMEDY. . . LAST CENTURY. THE artificial Comedy, or Comedy of Manners, is r|ui(i: extinct on our stage. Congreve and Farquhar show their...characters will not stand the moral test. We screw every thing up to that. Idle gallantry in a fiction, a dream, the passing pageant of an evening, startles... | |
 | 1835 - 430 pages
...behind the curtain but in the first or second gallery. ON THE ARTIFICIAL COMEDY OF THE LAST CENTURY. THE artificial comedy, or comedy of manners, is quite...them. Is it for a few wild speeches, an occasional license of dialogue? I think not altogether. The business of their dramatic characters will not stand... | |
 | English literature - 1835 - 432 pages
...behind the curtain but in the first or second gallery. ON THE ARTIFICIAL COMEDY OF THE LAST CENTURY. THE artificial comedy, or comedy of manners, is quite...them. Is it for a few wild speeches, an occasional license of dialogue? I think not altogether. The business of their dramatic characters will not stand... | |
 | Charles Lamb - English literature - 1836 - 362 pages
...behind the curtain, but in the first or second gallery. ON THE ARTIFICIAL COMEDY LAST CENTURY. THE artificial Comedy, or Comedy of Manners, is quite...characters will not stand the moral test. We screw every thing up to that. Idle gallantry in a fiction, a dream, the passing pageant of an evening, startles... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1838 - 486 pages
...the curtain, but in the first or second gallery. ON THE ARTIFICIAL COMEDY OF THE LAST CENTURY. THE artificial comedy, or comedy of manners, is quite extinct on our stage. Congreye and Farquhar show their heads once in seven years only, to be exploded and put down inRtantly.... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1840 - 304 pages
...the curtain, but in the first or second gallery. 89 ON THE ARTIFICIAL COMEDY OF THE LAST CENTURY. THE artificial Comedy, or Comedy of manners, is quite...not stand the moral test. We screw everything up to Huit. Idle gallantry in a fiction, a dream, the passing pageant of an evening, startles us in the same... | |
 | William Wycherley, Leigh Hunt - English drama - 1840 - 784 pages
...CENTURY. The artificial Comedy, or Comedy of manners, is quite extinct on our stage. Cougreve and Farqubar show their heads once in seven years only, to be exploded...business of their dramatic characters will not stand the mbral test. We screw everything np to that. Idle gallantry in a fiction, a dream, the passing pageant... | |
 | William Wycherley, Leigh Hunt - Bookbinders - 1840 - 782 pages
...their heads once in seven years only, to be exploded and pnt down instantly. The times cannot '*'• them. Is it for a few wild speeches, an occasional licence of dialogue ? I think not altogether, fc business of their dramatic characters will not stand the moral test We screw everything up to fa.... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd - English literature - 1850 - 490 pages
...the curtain, but in the first or second gallery. ON THE ARTIFICIAL COMEDY OF THE LAST CENTURY. THE artificial comedy, or comedy of manners, is quite...them. Is it for a few wild speeches, an occasional license of dialogue ? I think not altogether. The business of their dramatic characters will not stand... | |
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THE artificial Comedy, or Comedy of manners, is quite extinct on our stage. Congreve and Farquhar show their heads once in seven years only, to be exploded and put down instantly. The times cannot bear them. 
