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"Low comedy" Quotes from Famous Books

... low comedy, the melodrama, or whatever it was," proposed the boatbuilder. "Let us get down to the regular business of the day. We want more money here, if we can get it on a fair and square basis. If we can't, we'll do our ...

— The Submarine Boys' Trial Trip - "Making Good" as Young Experts • Victor G. Durham

... what he says, Aristophanes has not always disdained this sort of low comedy—for instance, ...

— Peace • Aristophanes

... part,' said Miss Hender; but seeing that Kate did not understand, she hastened to explain that the low comedy parts ...

— A Mummer's Wife • George Moore

... other as Asa Trenchard, rose to almost instant popularity and fame. I shall not repeat it except to say that Jefferson's Asa Trenchard was unlike any other the English or American stage has known. He played the raw Yankee boy, not in low comedy at all, but made him innocent and ignorant as a well-born Green Mountain lad might be, never a bumpkin; and in the scene when Asa tells his sweetheart the bear story and whilst pretending to light his cigar burns the will, he left not a dry eye in ...

— Marse Henry, Complete - An Autobiography • Henry Watterson

... to sit among the elect, if you will; talk of his tendency to farce and caricature; call his humour low comedy, and his pathos bathos—although you shall say none of these things in my presence unchallenged; the fact remains that every child, in America at least, knows more of England—its almshouses, debtors' prisons, and law-courts, its villages and villagers, its beadles and cheap-jacks ...

— Penelope's English Experiences • Kate Douglas Wiggin