The Collected Works of William Hazlitt: Lectures on the English comic writers. A view of the English stage. Dramatic essays from 'The London magazine.'J.M. Dent & Company, 1903 |
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... English Comic Writers A View of the English Stage Dramatic Essays from ' The London Magazine ' 1903 LONDON : J. M. DENT & CO . McCLURE , PHILLIPS & CO .: NEW YORK THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY 471621 A ASTOR , LENOX PR THE COLLECTED WORKS OF.
... English Comic Writers A View of the English Stage Dramatic Essays from ' The London Magazine ' 1903 LONDON : J. M. DENT & CO . McCLURE , PHILLIPS & CO .: NEW YORK THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY 471621 A ASTOR , LENOX PR THE COLLECTED WORKS OF.
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... ENGLISH COMIC WRITERS A VIEW OF THE ENGLISH STAGE DRAMATIC ESSAYS FROM THE LONDON MAGA- ZINE ' NOTES . PAGE 5 173 383 439 LECTURES ON THE ENGLISH COMIC WRITERS BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE The first.
... ENGLISH COMIC WRITERS A VIEW OF THE ENGLISH STAGE DRAMATIC ESSAYS FROM THE LONDON MAGA- ZINE ' NOTES . PAGE 5 173 383 439 LECTURES ON THE ENGLISH COMIC WRITERS BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE The first.
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... English Novelists . 106 LECTURE VII . On the Works of Hogarth . On the Grand and Familiar Style of Painting LECTURE VIII . On the Comic Writers of the last Century 133 149 LECTURES ON THE ENGLISH COMIC WRITERS Tears may be considered.
... English Novelists . 106 LECTURE VII . On the Works of Hogarth . On the Grand and Familiar Style of Painting LECTURE VIII . On the Comic Writers of the last Century 133 149 LECTURES ON THE ENGLISH COMIC WRITERS Tears may be considered.
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William Hazlitt Alfred Rayney Waller, Arnold Glover. LECTURES ON THE ENGLISH COMIC WRITERS Tears may be considered as the natural and involuntary resource VOL . VIII .: A LECTURES ON THE ENGLISH COMIC WRITERS.
William Hazlitt Alfred Rayney Waller, Arnold Glover. LECTURES ON THE ENGLISH COMIC WRITERS Tears may be considered as the natural and involuntary resource VOL . VIII .: A LECTURES ON THE ENGLISH COMIC WRITERS.
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... English comedy from the time of Farquhar . For this several causes might be assigned in the political and moral changes of the times ; but among other minor ones , Jeremy Collier , in his View of the English Stage , frightened the poets ...
... English comedy from the time of Farquhar . For this several causes might be assigned in the political and moral changes of the times ; but among other minor ones , Jeremy Collier , in his View of the English Stage , frightened the poets ...
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