The Observer: Being a Collection of Moral, Literary and Familiar Essays, Volume 4C. Dilly, 1788 - Conduct of life |
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Page 73
... the " whole turns four . " Julius Pollux says that Alexis named one of his comedies Γυναικοστρατία , and there are some paffages , which we may prefume are reliques of this piece , of a very bitter caft , for this N ° 101. THE OBSERVER .
... the " whole turns four . " Julius Pollux says that Alexis named one of his comedies Γυναικοστρατία , and there are some paffages , which we may prefume are reliques of this piece , of a very bitter caft , for this N ° 101. THE OBSERVER .
Page 74
... caft , for he makes one of his female characters roundly affert- " No animal in nature can compare " In impudence with woman ; I myself " Am one , and from my own experience speak . " I flatter myself an English audience would not hear ...
... caft , for he makes one of his female characters roundly affert- " No animal in nature can compare " In impudence with woman ; I myself " Am one , and from my own experience speak . " I flatter myself an English audience would not hear ...
Page 80
... caft , one intitled Matrimony , and the other The Nuptials ; we may venture to guess that the following passages have belonged to one or both of these plays- " Ye foolish husbands , trick not out your wives ; " Dress not their perfons ...
... caft , one intitled Matrimony , and the other The Nuptials ; we may venture to guess that the following passages have belonged to one or both of these plays- " Ye foolish husbands , trick not out your wives ; " Dress not their perfons ...
Page 84
... caft , a new creation , bright and beam- ing with unrivalled luftre ; his contemporary Jonfon did not feem to aim at it . Though I have already given a Parafite from Eupolis , and compared him with Jonson's admi- rable Mosca , yet I ...
... caft , a new creation , bright and beam- ing with unrivalled luftre ; his contemporary Jonfon did not feem to aim at it . Though I have already given a Parafite from Eupolis , and compared him with Jonson's admi- rable Mosca , yet I ...
Page 100
... caft , and one , who scrupled not to give a personal name to one of his comedies , written professedly against the character of Thorucion , a certain military prefect in those times , and a notorious traitor to his country . The titles ...
... caft , and one , who scrupled not to give a personal name to one of his comedies , written professedly against the character of Thorucion , a certain military prefect in those times , and a notorious traitor to his country . The titles ...
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