Outlines of English Literature

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Outlines of English Literature
Thomas Budd Shaw
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The action of this piece is exceedingly animated and laaghable, and the absence of any moral aim, the renunciatiui of any attempt to draw, in a principal or leading character, a portrait of some particular folly, is singularly advantageous to its effect, however it may degrade the work as a physiological embodiment.
The personages are very numerous, and sketched with felicity ; tho booby Squire and his pot-house companions, the prosy and hospitable Mr. Hardcastle, his foolish wife, and the equi
...voques produced by Marlow's extravagant bashfulness — all these, if not of the higher order of comedy, are abundantly laughable and well managed.
In concluding our remarks on this author it will only be necessary to mention a number of histori.s written merely as booksellers' task- 278 OUTLINES or GXNXBAL LmRATUBB. [CHAP. XT.
work — mere oompilations as regards the matter, bat ezhibitiiig Goldsmith's DeTer-&iliiig charm of style : this circamstance, toge- ther with the absence of any very oppressive degree of erudition, has rendered them peculiarly well adapted for class-books in schools; a place they will retain till the more accurate and profound method of modem historical investigation shall have been communicated even to the elementary instruction of the young.


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