...or humour, into their mouths, give them mighty good hearts, very fine clothes, furnish a new set of scenes, make a pathetic scene or two, with a sprinkling...the stage, and it will soon happen that our comic players will have nothing left for it but a fine coat and a song. It depends upon the audience whether...

...or humour, into their mouths, give them mighty good hearts, very fine clothes, furnish a new set of scenes, make a pathetic scene or two, with a sprinkling...melancholy conversation through the whole, and there is no donbt but all the ladies will cry, and all the gentlemen applaud. Humour at present seems to be departing...

...absurdities." In later years — even after his first play had been brought out — his cry is still the same. "Humour at present seems to be departing from the Stage, and it will soon happen that our Comic Players will have nothing left for it but a fine Coat and a Song. It depends upon the Audience whether...

...or humour, into their mouths, give them mighty good hearts, very fine clothes, furnish a new set of scenes, make a pathetic scene or two, with a sprinkling...seems to be departing from the stage . . . and it will be but a just punishment, that when, by our being too fastidious, we have banished humour from the...

...or humour, into their mouths, give them mighty good hearts, very fine clothes, furnish a new set of scenes, make a pathetic scene or two, with a sprinkling...seems to be departing from the stage . . . and it will be but a just punishment, that when, by our being too fastidious, we have banished humour from the...

...humour into their mouths, give them mighty good hearts and very fine clothes, furnish a new set of scenes, make a pathetic scene or two with a sprinkling...conversation through the whole ; and there is no doubt Jbut that all the ladies will cry and all the gentlemen applaud.; There we have the whole thing described—...

...or humour, or character.' Vicar, 296. Cp. Goldsmith's Essay on Laughing and Sentimental Comedy : ' Humour at present seems to be departing from the stage, and it will soon happen that our comic players will have nothing left for it but a fine coat and a song ' ( Westminster Magazine, 1773). HUNT...

...comic poet is invading the province of the tragic muse, he leaves her lovely sister quite neglected.. ..Humour at present seems to be departing from the stage, and it will soon happen that our comic players will have nothing left for it but a fine coat and a song. It depends upon the audience whether...

...or humour, into their mouths, give them mighty good hearts, very fine clothes, furnish a new set of scenes, make a pathetic scene or two, with a sprinkling...the ladies will cry, and all the gentlemen applaud.' The testimony of Goldsmith cannot be dismissed simply as that of a hostile partisan, for examination...

...scenes, make a pathetic scene or two, with a sprinkling of tender melancholy conversation throughout the whole, and there is no doubt but all the ladies will cry, and all the gentlemen applaud.' 28 Whether professional rivalry was increased by personal antagonism cannot be definitely known. The...