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" In his comic scenes he is seldom very successful when he engages his characters in reciprocations of smartness and contests of sarcasm; their jests are commonly gross and their pleasantry licentious; neither his gentlemen nor his ladies have much delicacy,... "
Poems, with illustrative remarks [ed. by W.C. Oulton]. To which is prefixed ... - Page xxvii
by William Shakespeare - 1804
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The Harvard Classics, Volume 39

Literature - 1909 - 498 pages
...successful, when he engages his characters in reciprocations of smartness and contests of sarcasm; their jests are commonly gross, and their pleasantry licentious;...from his clowns by any appearance of refined manners. Whether he represented the real conversation of his time is not easy to determine; the reign of Elisabeth...
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Literary Criticism: Pope to Croce

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Five Kinds of Writing: Selections from British and American Authors, Old and New

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Wylie Sypher - English literature - 1947 - 1294 pages
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Prose and Poetry

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Criticism: The Major Texts

Walter Jackson Bate - Criticism - 1952 - 634 pages
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