The Observer: Being a Collection of Moral, Literary and Familiar Essays, Volume 4C. Dilly, 1788 - Conduct of life |
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... in a constitution so happily tempered as our's , that blessing seems peculiarly annexed to affluence . The ... inftance numbers , who deport themselves with honour under the visita- : tions of adversity . Man must be in a tions ...
... in a constitution so happily tempered as our's , that blessing seems peculiarly annexed to affluence . The ... inftance numbers , who deport themselves with honour under the visita- : tions of adversity . Man must be in a tions ...
Page 110
... in his hungry throat : " Alas for Ęschylus ! musing he walk'd , " The foaring eagle dropt a tortoife down , " And ... inftance in point . Where but one fragment is to be found of a writer's works , and that one of fo so elevated a ...
... in his hungry throat : " Alas for Ęschylus ! musing he walk'd , " The foaring eagle dropt a tortoife down , " And ... inftance in point . Where but one fragment is to be found of a writer's works , and that one of fo so elevated a ...
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... in any refpect have amended it for , as an inftance of Chrift's miraculous power , I can fee no greater energy in the act of enlivening a dead tree , than in destroying a living one by the fingle word of . his command . 1 i I must yet ...
... in any refpect have amended it for , as an inftance of Chrift's miraculous power , I can fee no greater energy in the act of enlivening a dead tree , than in destroying a living one by the fingle word of . his command . 1 i I must yet ...
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... inftance in the perfon of a most admirable actress , whom I have often seen , and never without the tribute of ap- plaufe , in the cafts of Juliet's Nurse , Aunt De- borah , and other venerable damsels in the vale of of years , when I ...
... inftance in the perfon of a most admirable actress , whom I have often seen , and never without the tribute of ap- plaufe , in the cafts of Juliet's Nurse , Aunt De- borah , and other venerable damsels in the vale of of years , when I ...
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Abrahams addreſſed Ęschylus afferts againſt almoſt alſo amongst anſwer Antiphanes Attalus beauty becauſe beſt bleſſing caſt cauſe character Chrift Chriſtian cloſe comedy comic Conftantia courſe deſcribed Diphilus diſcovered diſplay diſpoſed drama Drowſy eaſy eſtabliſhed faid falſe fame faſhion fatire fays feem firſt fome foon fragment fuch fure give hath heart himſelf houſe inſtance intereſted itſelf Jews juſt lady laſt leſs maſter Menander ment Middle Comedy miracle Mofes moſt muſe muſt myſelf nature obſerved occafion paffion paſs paſſages paſſed perſon pleaſed pleaſure poet preſent purpoſe queſtion racter reaſon reſpect Saint Mark ſame ſay ſcene ſecond ſee ſeems ſelf ſenſibility ſerve ſervice ſet ſeveral ſhall ſhe ſhew ſhort ſhould ſmall ſociety ſome ſomething ſpare ſpeak ſpirit ſtage ſtand ſtate ſtile ſtill ſtop ſtriking ſubject ſuch Suidas ſuppoſed ſurpriſe ſyſtem thee theſe thing thoſe uſe whilft whoſe writers