The Observer: Being a Collection of Moral, Literary and Familiar Essays, Volume 4C. Dilly, 1788 - Conduct of life |
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... poet - - - 55 C. Of the midddle 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 ...
... poet - - - 55 C. Of the midddle 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 ...
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... poet Mofchion : Of Nicostratus , Philippus , Phænicides , Sotades and Straton , with various fragments of their ... poets and the author's address to his readers upon this portion of his work -- 113 CVII . The notion of a certain ...
... poet Mofchion : Of Nicostratus , Philippus , Phænicides , Sotades and Straton , with various fragments of their ... poets and the author's address to his readers upon this portion of his work -- 113 CVII . The notion of a certain ...
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... poets are in general good describers of the living manners , and of all dramatic painters in this class Ben Jonson is decidedly the best . In the mirror of the stage we have the reflection of the times through all their changes from the ...
... poets are in general good describers of the living manners , and of all dramatic painters in this class Ben Jonson is decidedly the best . In the mirror of the stage we have the reflection of the times through all their changes from the ...
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... poet's language would have run spontaneoufly into metre at the fight of it ; " What a subject , " said I within myself , " is " here present for those ingenious bards , who " have the happy talent of defcribing nature in " her fairest ...
... poet's language would have run spontaneoufly into metre at the fight of it ; " What a subject , " said I within myself , " is " here present for those ingenious bards , who " have the happy talent of defcribing nature in " her fairest ...
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... poet's unpropitious hour ; " The student trims his midnight lamp in vain , And beauty fades upon the painter's eye ; Hang up thy pallet , Romney ! and convene The gay companions of thy social board ; Apelles ' self would throw his ...
... poet's unpropitious hour ; " The student trims his midnight lamp in vain , And beauty fades upon the painter's eye ; Hang up thy pallet , Romney ! and convene The gay companions of thy social board ; Apelles ' self would throw his ...
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