The Observer: Being a Collection of Moral, Literary and Familiar Essays, Volume 4C. Dilly, 1788 - Conduct of life |
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Page 60
... second in this series is the Prometheus chained , which hap- pily survives ; the last was Prometheus delivered , and from the opening scene of this drama Ti- manthes formed his picture . Prometheus is here discovered on the fea - shore ...
... second in this series is the Prometheus chained , which hap- pily survives ; the last was Prometheus delivered , and from the opening scene of this drama Ti- manthes formed his picture . Prometheus is here discovered on the fea - shore ...
Page 71
... second nature , and the pearly row , " Will the or will the not , perforce appears . " This passage I have literally rendered , and I suspect it describes the artifices of an impure toilet with precision enough to shew that these ...
... second nature , and the pearly row , " Will the or will the not , perforce appears . " This passage I have literally rendered , and I suspect it describes the artifices of an impure toilet with precision enough to shew that these ...
Page 80
... " And nonfuit your complaint , till in the end " Juftice is hooted down , and guilt prevails . " The second is in a more animated strain of comedy . For For this , and only this , I'll trust a 80 N ° 101 . THE OBSERVER .
... " And nonfuit your complaint , till in the end " Juftice is hooted down , and guilt prevails . " The second is in a more animated strain of comedy . For For this , and only this , I'll trust a 80 N ° 101 . THE OBSERVER .
Page 84
... second - hand pedantry coarsely daubed with ribaldry : In Shakespear you meet originality of the pureft caft , a new creation , bright and beam- ing with unrivalled luftre ; his contemporary Jonfon did not feem to aim at it . Though I ...
... second - hand pedantry coarsely daubed with ribaldry : In Shakespear you meet originality of the pureft caft , a new creation , bright and beam- ing with unrivalled luftre ; his contemporary Jonfon did not feem to aim at it . Though I ...
Page 90
... second time . " On the topic of love he is more playful and ingenious- " Love , the disturber of the peace of heaven , And grand fomenter of Olympian feuds , Was banish'd from the fynod of the Gods : They drove him down to earth at the ...
... second time . " On the topic of love he is more playful and ingenious- " Love , the disturber of the peace of heaven , And grand fomenter of Olympian feuds , Was banish'd from the fynod of the Gods : They drove him down to earth at the ...
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