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In the latter, although yielding to the corrupt taste of the
time in his comic parts, he causes his captive Indian prince to teach that
period a lesson by his pure and noble love for Imoinda. Oronooko is a
prince taken by the English at Surinam and carried captive to England.
These writers are the best representatives of those who in tragedy and
comedy form the staple of that age. Their models were copied in succeeding
years; but, with the expulsion of the Stuarts, morals were somewhat
mended; and while light, gay, and witty productions for the stage were
still in demand, the extreme licentiousness was repudiated by the public;
and the plays of Cibber, Cumberland, Colman, and Sheridan, reflecting
these better tastes, are free from much of the pollution to which we have
referred.


CHAPTER XXIV.
POPE, AND THE ARTIFICIAL SCHOOL.

Contemporary History. Birth and Early Life. Essay on Criticism. Rape of
the Lock. The Messiah. The Iliad. Value of the Translation. The
Odyssey. Essay on Man.


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