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Show GARRICK DAVYI pers, h d g intention to lessen Mr. Kelly' r Sphere, fame, but he thinks the opportunity fair to sa tug a few words on the subject Kely. posthumou It appearsto him ' trade 1n D h\"m that a 'play made up of grave and moral sen o1, was able b tences, does not deserve the name of comedy omedy, intitled Whe e*, by Garrick Mr. King, wit rises above its former level r and true Wea o It pmmi&vd w dy, d, tha sermo in fiv am i the pathetic is properly interwoven, i the heart are wakened compensat mour and The feelings o in som for the absenc degree of wit and hu But still, a true picture of the man ners is, for the most part, attended with ridicule Doctor Hurd very properly says, ¢ Co "" medy proposes, for the end of its representa" tion, the sensation of pleasure, arising from ‘" view of the truth of characters more espe - twenty nights "" cially their specific differences." But this de (P (‘QHCd, Pze! finition seems. to be entirely rejected by writer cies of compes o from French critics, ID'Alembert was the ma mer sentimenta comedy ": "l I l'nwn(lf) O all th wh bes |