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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: PREFACE. It would be a great impudence in me to say much of a comedy, which has had but indifferent success in the action. I made the town my judges, and the greater part condemned it: after which, 1 do not think it my concernment to defend it with the ordinary zeal of a poet for his decried poem. Though Corneille is more resolute in his preface before his Pertharite which was condemned more universally than this; for he avows boldly, that, in spite of censure, his play was well and regularly written; which is more than I dare say for mine. Yet it was received at court; and was more than once the divertisement of his Majesty, by his own command; but I have more modesty than to ascribe that to my merit, which was his particular act of grace. It was the first attempt I made in dramatic poetry; and, I find since, a very bold one, to begin with comedy, v which is the most difficult part of it. The plot was not originally my own; but so altered by Le succe's de cette trage'die a 16 si malheureux, que pour m'epargner le chagrin de m'en souvenir, je n'en dirai presque rien. J'ajoute ici malgrd sa disgrace, que les sentimens en sent assez vifs et nobles, les vers assez bien tourne's, et que la faon dont le sujet s'explique dans la premiere scene ne manque pas d'avtifice.?Ernmeti de Pertlinritc. me (whether for the better or worse I know not) that whoever the author was, he could not have challenged a scene of it I doubt not but you will see in it the uncorrectness of a young writer; which is yet but a small excuse for him, who is so little amended since. The best apology I can make for it, and the truest, is only this, that you have, since that time, received with applause, as bad, and as uncorrect plays from other men. PROLOGUE TO THE WILD GALLANT, AS IT WAS FI...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217897358 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217897355 |
| Weight | 0.95 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.65 In |
| List Price | $21.24 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 290 pages |
| Publisher | |
| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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