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1219	Meredith, George	An Essay on Comedy and the Uses of the Comic Spirit			.txt	text/plain	17241	788	68	AN ESSAY ON COMEDY AND THE USES OF THE COMIC SPIRIT ON THE IDEA OF COMEDY AND OF THE USES OF THE COMIC SPIRIT {1} Our English idea of a Comedy of Manners might be imaged in the person of The Comic poet dares to show us men and women Comic Muse, you must love pure Comedy warmly to understand the Comedy you must know the real world, and know men and women well enough Menander and Moliere stand alone specially as comic poets of the feelings Comic spirit is of itself exclusive of the idea of Comedy, and the poor that are really comic; and to laugh at the former, not seeing the comedy take to be the flourishing of the Comic idea and Comedy; and the test of Comedy, or in any form the Comic spirit, will then come to Comic idea enclosed in a comedy makes it more generally perceptible and	./cache/1219.txt	./txt/1219.txt