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The comic history of Rome (1850)

À Beckett, Gilbert Abbott, 1811-1856, Leech, John, 1817-1864 · London, Bradbury, Evans · leaf 245

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erent masks, without intro-ducing any variety, for they were very nearly the same; but we haveshown enough to prove that the classical taste for which so manyclamour without knowing what they talk about, was very little, ifat all, above the modern standard. Some authorities * assert that *… … Light Comedy Man of the Period. required masks, just as a play of the present day has prefixed to it alist of the costumes of the characters. The admirers of the classicalmay be grieved and astonished to hear that the taste, for the restorationof which they so much pine, took greater delight in the…

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