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He introduces Johnson in it, annoyed by an impertinent fellow, and saying to him: 'Have I said anything, good Sir, that you do not comprehend? 'No, no, replied he, 'I perfectly well comprehend every word you have been saying. 'Do you so, Sir? said the philosopher, 'then I heartily ask pardon of the company for misemploying their time so egregiously. The Observer, No. 25.
Up to a short time ago he was the only one answering to such a description. Those who come after him proceed consciously and unconsciously from him, some of them being mere worthless imitators. In this genre, if I am not misemploying that term, he remained without a peer.
In the seventeenth century, when the Spanish theatre flourished in all its glory, the Italians seem to have borrowed frequently from it; but not without misemploying and disfiguring whatever they so acquired. The neglect of the regular stage increased with the all-absorbing passion for the opera, and with the growing taste of the multitude for improvisatory farces with standing masks.
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