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" It is altogether a speculative scene of things, which has no reference whatever to the world that is. "
The London Magazine - Page 304
1822
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The Republic of Letters: A Weekly Republication of Standard Literature, Volume 3

1835 - 430 pages
...into the land — what shall I call it ? —of cuckoldry — the Utopia of gallantry, where pleasure is duty, and the manners perfect freedom. It is altogether...only are mistakes— is alike essentially vain and wortbless. The great art of Congreve is especially shown in this, that he has entirely excluded from...
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The Works of Charles Lamb: To which are Prefixed, His Letters, and a Sketch ...

Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1838 - 486 pages
...into the land — what shall I call it ? — of cuckoldry — the Utopia of gallantry, where pleasure is duty, and the manners perfect freedom. It is altogether...every character in these plays — the few exceptions are only mistakes — is alike essentially vain and worthless. The great art of Congreve is especially...
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The Dramatic Works of Wycherley, Congreve, Vanbrugh, and Farquhar, Volume 2

William Wycherley, Leigh Hunt - Bookbinders - 1840 - 782 pages
...the land of — what shall I call it ? — of cuckoldry — the Utopia of gallantry, when pleasure is duty, and the manners perfect freedom. It is altogether a speculative scene of thing« which has no reference whatever to the world that is. No good person can be justly offended...
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The Works of Charles Lamb

Charles Lamb - English literature - 1852 - 688 pages
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Works, with a Sketch of His Life and Final Memorials, Volume 2

Charles Lamb - 1855 - 798 pages
...into the land — what shall I call it ? — of cuckoldry — the Utopia of gallantry, where pleasure is duty, and the manners perfect freedom. It is altogether...every character in these plays — the few exceptions are only mistakes — is alike essentially vain and worthless. The great art of Congreve is especially...
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The Works of Charles Lamb

Charles Lamb - 1856 - 408 pages
...into the land— what shall I call it ? — of cuckoldry — the Utopia of gallantry, where pleasure is duty, and the manners perfect freedom* It is altogether...every character in these plays — the few exceptions are only mistakes - — is alike essentially vain and worthless. The great art of Congreve is especially...
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The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal, Volume 55

1860 - 912 pages
...much of " artificial comedy" there that one is tempted to apply this sentence of friend Elia's : — " It is altogether a speculative scene of things, which has no reference whatever to the world that ie." Among its personages one is tempted to say, once more, with him: — "When Ну William Uowitt....
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The Dramatic Works of Wycherley, Congreve, Vanbrugh, and Farquhar

William Wycherley, William Congreve, Leigh Hunt, Sir John Vanbrugh - English drama - 1866 - 768 pages
...the land of — what shall I call it? — of cnckoldry — the Utopia of gallantry, where pleasure is duty, and the manners perfect freedom. It is altogether...good person suffers on the stage. Judged morally, »very character in these plays — the few exceptions only are mistakes — is alike essentially vain...
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Works: Including His Most Intesesting Letters

Charles Lamb - 1867 - 684 pages
...is duty, and the manner* perfect freedom. It is altogether a ipeculative scene of things, which lias no reference whatever to the world that is. No good...the stage. Judged morally, every character in these plays—the few exceptions only are mutaifi—is alike essentially vain and worthl«s. The great art...
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The Works of Charles Lamb: With a Sketch of His Life and Final ..., Volume 2

Charles Lamb - 1875 - 618 pages
...inta the land — what shall I call it ? — of cuckoldry — the Utopia af gallantry, where pleasure is duty, and the manners perfect freedom. It is altogether...every character in these plays — the few exceptions are only mistakes — is alike essentially vain and worthless. The great art of Congreve is especially...
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