William Congreve: The Critical HeritageAlexander Lindsay, Howard Erskine-Hill Routledge, 1989 - 494 sivua The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling student and researcher to read the material themselves. |
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... Plays . I urge not this as any Reflection on Mr. Congreve's Performance , for which I have all the just Value the Merit of the Play commands ; but to do Justice to his great Predecessors on the Stage , at the depressing whose Praise ...
... Plays . I urge not this as any Reflection on Mr. Congreve's Performance , for which I have all the just Value the Merit of the Play commands ; but to do Justice to his great Predecessors on the Stage , at the depressing whose Praise ...
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... play was Love for Love , and tho ' it is fraught with wit and entertainment , I hope I shall never see it represented again ; for it is so extremely indelicate , —to use the softest word I can , —that Miss Mirvan and I were perpetually ...
... play was Love for Love , and tho ' it is fraught with wit and entertainment , I hope I shall never see it represented again ; for it is so extremely indelicate , —to use the softest word I can , —that Miss Mirvan and I were perpetually ...
Sivu 258
... play was ? ' ' Why , really , Sir , a play requires so much attention , —it is scarce possible to keep awake , if one listens ; -for , indeed , by the time it is evening , one has been so fatigued , with dining , —or wine , —or the ...
... play was ? ' ' Why , really , Sir , a play requires so much attention , —it is scarce possible to keep awake , if one listens ; -for , indeed , by the time it is evening , one has been so fatigued , with dining , —or wine , —or the ...
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The Early Reception 16911700 | 56 |
S HENRY HIGDEN in the Preface to The Wary Widdow 1693 | 64 |
JONATHAN SWIFT To Mr Congreve 1693 | 70 |
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