The Observer: Being a Collection of Moral, Literary and Familiar Essays, Volume 4C. Dilly, 1788 - Conduct of life |
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... stage we have the reflection of the times through all their changes from the reign of Elizabeth to that of Anne , with an exception to the days of Oliver , of which inter- val if there was no other delineation of the reigning manners ...
... stage we have the reflection of the times through all their changes from the reign of Elizabeth to that of Anne , with an exception to the days of Oliver , of which inter- val if there was no other delineation of the reigning manners ...
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... stage , And then be heard no more . In another place he says , they transform a man into a different kind of being from what he was originally- Εις ἕτερον ἦθος , ἐκ ἐν ὦ ̓ τὸ πρόσθεν ἦν · and then concludes with that Attic fimplicity ...
... stage , And then be heard no more . In another place he says , they transform a man into a different kind of being from what he was originally- Εις ἕτερον ἦθος , ἐκ ἐν ὦ ̓ τὸ πρόσθεν ἦν · and then concludes with that Attic fimplicity ...
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... stage of hu- man mifery . The painter has thrown a very touching character of infanity into his features , which plainly indicates that his loss of reason has arifen from the tender rather than the inflam- matory paffions ; for there is ...
... stage of hu- man mifery . The painter has thrown a very touching character of infanity into his features , which plainly indicates that his loss of reason has arifen from the tender rather than the inflam- matory paffions ; for there is ...
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... stage . In N ° LXXVIII . I took leave of what is properly called The Old Comedy ; I am next to speak of that class of authors , who are generally stiled writers of The Middle Comedy . The fpirit of a free people will discover itself in ...
... stage . In N ° LXXVIII . I took leave of what is properly called The Old Comedy ; I am next to speak of that class of authors , who are generally stiled writers of The Middle Comedy . The fpirit of a free people will discover itself in ...
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... stage ; the comic drama , being a professed representation of living manners , will paint these likenesses in stronger or in fainter colours according to the degree of licence or reftraint , which may prevail in dif- ferent places , or ...
... stage ; the comic drama , being a professed representation of living manners , will paint these likenesses in stronger or in fainter colours according to the degree of licence or reftraint , which may prevail in dif- ferent places , or ...
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