...Fiction. 4- In sentimental comedy, according to Goldsmith, characters are basically good and have an "abundance of sentiment and feeling." "If they happen to have Faults or Foibles," he tells us, "the Spectator is taught not only to pardon, but to applaud them, in consideration of...

...fair in outline, though pointed in tenor and detail: In these plays almost all the characters are good and exceedingly generous; they are lavish enough of...to applaud them, in consideration of the goodness of their hearts; so that folly, instead of being ridiculed, is commended, and the comedy aims at touching...

...latter 'almost all the characters are good and exceedingly generous; they are lavish enough of their rin money on the stage, and though they want humour have abundance of senriment and feeling'. Goldsmith's battle-lines are pethaps too rigidly drawn but there is no quesrion...

...their flattering every man in his favorite foible. In these plays almost all the characters are good, and exceedingly generous; they are lavish enough of...to applaud them, in consideration of the goodness of their hearts; so that folly, instead of being ridiculed, is commended, and the comedy aims at touching...

...Faults of Mankind, make our interest in the piece ... In these Plays almost all the Characters are good, and exceedingly generous; they are lavish enough of...they want Humour, have abundance of Sentiment and Feeling.1 As with most binaries, this one serves an ideological purpose rather than representing the...

...introduced, under the name of sentimental comedy.... In these plays almost all the characters are good and exceedingly generous ; they are lavish enough...to applaud them, in consideration of the goodness of their hearts ; so that folly, instead of being ridiculed, is commended, and the comedy aims at touching...