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" ... Enemies to the unfortunate Earl. It must be confessed there is something in this Play capable of raising Compassion in the most insensible Hearts; but then it is wholly owing to the Story; for the Diction is every where very bad, and in some Places... "
A Companion to the Theatre: Or, a View of Our Most Celebrated Dramatic ... - Page 105
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Lessing's Dramatic Theory: Being an Introduction to & Commentary on His ...

John George Robertson - Drama - 1939 - 568 pages
...Diction is every where very bad, and in some Places so low, that it even becomes unnatural, and shews our Author little acquainted with Courts, when he puts into the Mouth of the prune Nobility such Language as a civil Coster-monger would blush to use. And I think there cannot...
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