Representative English Dramas from Dryden to SheridanOxford University Press, American Branch, 1914 - 459 pages |
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... seem to us now , yet it scored the most signal triumph of eighteenth - century classical tragedy . Sentimental comedy must be represented , and — almost as a matter of course - by The Conscious Lovers of Steele . The Beggar's Opera by ...
... seem to us now , yet it scored the most signal triumph of eighteenth - century classical tragedy . Sentimental comedy must be represented , and — almost as a matter of course - by The Conscious Lovers of Steele . The Beggar's Opera by ...
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... seem to us ever to be the same , yet this constancy in love must have charmed the cavaliers by its very contrast to their daily experience . She reasons with a calm inflexibility of temper that marks her off from her passionate lover ...
... seem to us ever to be the same , yet this constancy in love must have charmed the cavaliers by its very contrast to their daily experience . She reasons with a calm inflexibility of temper that marks her off from her passionate lover ...
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... seem'st , assist me against me . Betwixt my love and virtue I am tossed ; This must be forfeited , or that be lost . I could do much to merit thy applause ; Help me to fortify the better cause . My honor is not wholly put to flight ...
... seem'st , assist me against me . Betwixt my love and virtue I am tossed ; This must be forfeited , or that be lost . I could do much to merit thy applause ; Help me to fortify the better cause . My honor is not wholly put to flight ...
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... seems to say , You are not in your killing mood to - day : Men brand , indeed , your sex with cruelty , But you're too good to see poor lovers die . This godlike pity in you I extol ; And more , because , like heaven's , ' tis general ...
... seems to say , You are not in your killing mood to - day : Men brand , indeed , your sex with cruelty , But you're too good to see poor lovers die . This godlike pity in you I extol ; And more , because , like heaven's , ' tis general ...
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... seems , I could not live else- where . Then , by degrees , your feigned respect with- drew ; You marked my actions , and my guardian grew . But I am not concerned your acts to blame : My heart to yours but upon liking came ; And , like ...
... seems , I could not live else- where . Then , by degrees , your feigned respect with- drew ; You marked my actions , and my guardian grew . But I am not concerned your acts to blame : My heart to yours but upon liking came ; And , like ...
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