Read full poem →Let the strict life of graver mortals be
A long, exact, and serious comedy;
In every scene some moral let it teach,
Dictionary Entry
A choric song of celebration or revel, especially in Ancient Greece.
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. comedycomedy divinecomedy musicalcomedy new
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Poetry examples for “comedy”
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Read full poem →17 . Epicoe/tc-, ox, The Silent Woman. A Comedy.
lGOc). 4 to. This hud been acted before I699.
Read full poem →contributed his assistance to Chapman and Marston in
Eastward Hoe, a Comedy, 1605 ; and to Fletcher and
Middleton in The Widow, a Comedy, 1652.
Read full poem →of our author's comedies, but, as before hinted, there is a poetic sti/e often
equally proper and excellent even an the lowest drollery of comedy. Thus
when the jocose old Miramont in the Elder Brother catches austere solemn
Read full poem →full rl^t to share equally with Fletcher the fame of a tragic poet ; and Wit without Money,
the ifice Valour, and the Little French Lawyer, raise his character equally high in comedy.
« Seward.
Read full poem →The theatre in Lincoln’s-Inn Fields was opened on
the 30th of April, lOyj, with the new comedy of
Love for Love, which was acted wiih extraordinary
Read full poem →When my friend Garrick, in a happy moment,
took this comedy from his shelf, and meditated to
equip it for the stage, his sagacity, no doubt, disco-
Read full poem →lAttU trench Lawyer , a comedy. The plot is borrowed from Gusmali^
t>r the Spanish Rogue^ part ii. chap. 4. The story of Dinant, Clereraont,