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PJ.767.019
12 Feb 1767:11 (1262)
Whimsical remarks on the follies of the English. By a
Frenchman. . . Some of our nation consider the English
stage, which affords that people so much delight as a proof
of their barbarity. Their tragedies, it is true, though
interesting and replete with beauties, are nevertheless
dramatic monsters, half butchery and half farce. Grotesque
characters, and extravagant pleasantry constitute the chief
part of their comedies: in one of these the devil enter
sneezing, and some body says to the devil, God bless you.
They are not, however, all of this stamp: they have even
some in a very good taste; but there are hardly any which
give us any advantageous idea of the English nation; though
it is from the theatre that a stranger forms his opinion of
the manners of a people. . . .
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