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After Farquaar came Goldsmith. One may well feel proud that such a play as "She Stoops to Conquer" was written in his language. The sympathy with life and the knowledge of character which it shows together with the grace of its English are irresistible...
Sheridan was weaker than Goldsmith in that his characters were less original. The "Rivals" and the "School for Scandal" are of course the plays for which we remember...
Sheridan, Goldsmith, and Farquhar will be the principal authors discussed. The hour will include accounts of memorable performances by Warren, Gilbert, and Mr. Joseph Jefferson, together with a few recollections of "the Museum" in the later years of the stock company...
Sheridan, Goldsmith, and Farquhar will be the principal authors discussed. The hour will include accounts of memorable performances by Warren, Gilbert, and Mr. Joseph Jefferson, together with a few recollections of "the Museum" in the later years of the stock company...
...ready, and is soon to be published by D. C. Heath and Co., Boston, under the title of "The Heart of Oak Books." These books are five in number, and are carefully graded. The first contains childish rhymes and melodies old as Ben Jonson and Shakspeare and Goldsmith, and some of the best-known fables and stories in our tongue. The second includes children's poems and nursery tales, "old as Hengist and Horsa." In the the three remaining volumes are shorter poems universally accepted as treasures of the language-many from the Elizabethan singers-and prose pieces from...