The Observer: Being a Collection of Moral, Literary and Familiar Essays, Volume 4C. Dilly, 1788 - Conduct of life |
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... stile and fubject , that we have all , which the majesty and beauty of real nature can furnish , with beings out of the regions of nature , as strongly con- trafted in form and character , as fancy can de- vife : The scenery alfo is of ...
... stile and fubject , that we have all , which the majesty and beauty of real nature can furnish , with beings out of the regions of nature , as strongly con- trafted in form and character , as fancy can de- vife : The scenery alfo is of ...
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... stile , than I can recollect in any writer of this age and country . In general I think I can discover more antithesis in the au- thors of the Middle Comedy than in any others , and I take it to have been one of the conse- quences of ...
... stile , than I can recollect in any writer of this age and country . In general I think I can discover more antithesis in the au- thors of the Middle Comedy than in any others , and I take it to have been one of the conse- quences of ...
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... stile and manner of the writer , and not often enough to furnish a conjecture at the fable they appertain to ; they are like small crevices , letting in one feeble ray of light into a capa- cious building ; they dart occasionally upon ...
... stile and manner of the writer , and not often enough to furnish a conjecture at the fable they appertain to ; they are like small crevices , letting in one feeble ray of light into a capa- cious building ; they dart occasionally upon ...
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... stile , that they brought him to trial , and by one of the most cruel sentences upon record condemned the unhappy poet to be starved to death . Zarottus and fome other commentators upon Ovid interpret that distich in his Ibis to allude ...
... stile , that they brought him to trial , and by one of the most cruel sentences upon record condemned the unhappy poet to be starved to death . Zarottus and fome other commentators upon Ovid interpret that distich in his Ibis to allude ...
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... stile of comic irony , that I think myself happy in the discovery of it . The learned reader will acknowledge a striking fimilitude in the manner : to to Ariftophanes's remarks upon the occupations of Socrates's scholars in N ° 103. THE ...
... stile of comic irony , that I think myself happy in the discovery of it . The learned reader will acknowledge a striking fimilitude in the manner : to to Ariftophanes's remarks upon the occupations of Socrates's scholars in N ° 103. THE ...
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