| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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.... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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