The Observer: Being a Collection of Moral, Literary and Familiar Essays, Volume 4C. Dilly, 1788 - Conduct of life |
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... comedy of the Greeks ; anecdotes of Alexis ; fragments of that dramatic poet collected - -62 CI . The fame collection continued and con- cluded . Anecdotes of Antiphanes 72 CII . Collection of fragments from the come- dies of Antiphanes ...
... comedy of the Greeks ; anecdotes of Alexis ; fragments of that dramatic poet collected - -62 CI . The fame collection continued and con- cluded . Anecdotes of Antiphanes 72 CII . Collection of fragments from the come- dies of Antiphanes ...
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... comedy : Gene- ral observation upon these poets and the author's address to his readers upon this portion of his work -- 113 CVII . The notion of a certain humçurift that death might be avoided at will ; re- marks confequent thereto ...
... comedy : Gene- ral observation upon these poets and the author's address to his readers upon this portion of his work -- 113 CVII . The notion of a certain humçurift that death might be avoided at will ; re- marks confequent thereto ...
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... 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 in the productions of their stage ; the comic drama 62 THE OBSERVER . N ° 99 ...
... 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 in the productions of their stage ; the comic drama 62 THE OBSERVER . N ° 99 ...
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... Comedy . Cratinus also , though the bitterest of all the old writers , began to sweeten his gall , and , conforming to the ne- ceffity of the times , condescended to take up with the resource of parody , and wrote his Ulyffes upon the ...
... Comedy . Cratinus also , though the bitterest of all the old writers , began to sweeten his gall , and , conforming to the ne- ceffity of the times , condescended to take up with the resource of parody , and wrote his Ulyffes upon the ...
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... Comedy from the samples and fragments of those dramatists , who properly and exclusively belong to it , I find nothing which disposes me to suspect that it had in the least de- clined from the merit of the first writers , but on the ...
... Comedy from the samples and fragments of those dramatists , who properly and exclusively belong to it , I find nothing which disposes me to suspect that it had in the least de- clined from the merit of the first writers , but on the ...
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