The Observer: Being a Collection of Moral, Literary and Familiar Essays, Volume 4C. Dilly, 1788 - Conduct of life |
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Page 19
... fay our clime's inconstant , changeful True ! It gives the lie to all astrology , Makes the diviner mad and almost mocksta Philosophy itself ; Cameleon - like Our sky puts on all colours , blushing now , Now louring like a froward ...
... fay our clime's inconstant , changeful True ! It gives the lie to all astrology , Makes the diviner mad and almost mocksta Philosophy itself ; Cameleon - like Our sky puts on all colours , blushing now , Now louring like a froward ...
Page 36
... fays an old Greek author called Sotades- ̓Αν ̓ ἀλαζονῆς , τῦτ ̓ ἀνοίας ἐστὶ φρύαγμα - but I hope a little plain English , without the help of Sotades , will ferve to open the eyes of a plain English- man , and prevent him from strutting ...
... fays an old Greek author called Sotades- ̓Αν ̓ ἀλαζονῆς , τῦτ ̓ ἀνοίας ἐστὶ φρύαγμα - but I hope a little plain English , without the help of Sotades , will ferve to open the eyes of a plain English- man , and prevent him from strutting ...
Page 57
... fays , pro- ceeds only from a flaming cauldron , in which the Sybils have been making their libations to the infernal deities or furies , and he speaks of the refiected , ruddy tints , which by this manage- ment of the artist were cast ...
... fays , pro- ceeds only from a flaming cauldron , in which the Sybils have been making their libations to the infernal deities or furies , and he speaks of the refiected , ruddy tints , which by this manage- ment of the artist were cast ...
Page 66
... fays he was author of no less than two hundred and forty - five dramas , and I find the titles of one hundred and thirteen of this collection even now upon record ; this proves that he possessed a very copious vein of invention , and ...
... fays he was author of no less than two hundred and forty - five dramas , and I find the titles of one hundred and thirteen of this collection even now upon record ; this proves that he possessed a very copious vein of invention , and ...
Page 94
... fay fomething better than nothing , or fay " nothing ! " The noted tyrant of Sicily of the above name was alfo a writer both of tragedy and comedy . EPHIPPUS , a writer of comedy in this period , was a native of Athens , and one of ...
... fay fomething better than nothing , or fay " nothing ! " The noted tyrant of Sicily of the above name was alfo a writer both of tragedy and comedy . EPHIPPUS , a writer of comedy in this period , was a native of Athens , and one of ...
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