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THE genius of comedy not only changes with the age , but appears different among different people . Manners and customs not only vary among European nations , but are alike mutable from one age to another , even in the same people .
THE genius of comedy not only changes with the age , but appears different among different people . Manners and customs not only vary among European nations , but are alike mutable from one age to another , even in the same people .
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sonages were the contemporaries of Louis the Fourteenth , and his manners , in the critical acceptation of the term , local and temporary , yet his admirable genius opened that secret path of Nature , which is so rarely found among the ...
sonages were the contemporaries of Louis the Fourteenth , and his manners , in the critical acceptation of the term , local and temporary , yet his admirable genius opened that secret path of Nature , which is so rarely found among the ...
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It may be doubtful whether the great comic satirist , at that moment , caught the sudden revelation of his genius , as he did subsequently in his Tartuffe , his Misanthrope , his Bourgeois Gentilhomme , and others .
It may be doubtful whether the great comic satirist , at that moment , caught the sudden revelation of his genius , as he did subsequently in his Tartuffe , his Misanthrope , his Bourgeois Gentilhomme , and others .
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| Title | The New Monthly Magazine, Volume 37 |
| Editors | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth |
| Publisher | E. W. Allen, 1833 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 2 Mar 2007 |
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