The Observer: Being a Collection of Moral, Literary and Familiar Essays, Volume 4C. Dilly, 1788 - Conduct of life |
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Being a Collection of Moral, Literary and Familiar Essays Richard Cumberland. racter in trade had acquired a plentiful fortune , and came in time to be actually chofen one of the Areopagites : This man in an advanced pe- riod of his life ...
Being a Collection of Moral, Literary and Familiar Essays Richard Cumberland. racter in trade had acquired a plentiful fortune , and came in time to be actually chofen one of the Areopagites : This man in an advanced pe- riod of his life ...
Page 57
... racter of ghaftly pain and horror , as to make the beholders shrink . Amongst these Sybils he in- troduces the person of Caffandra the prophetess , whom Agamemnon brought captive from the de- struction of Troy . The light , he fays ...
... racter of ghaftly pain and horror , as to make the beholders shrink . Amongst these Sybils he in- troduces the person of Caffandra the prophetess , whom Agamemnon brought captive from the de- struction of Troy . The light , he fays ...
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... racter is of classic origin ; it is found with the contemporaries of Ariftophanes , though not in any comedy of his now existing ; the Middle Dramatists seem to have handled it very fre- L4 quently , quently , and in the New Comedy it ...
... racter is of classic origin ; it is found with the contemporaries of Ariftophanes , though not in any comedy of his now existing ; the Middle Dramatists seem to have handled it very fre- L4 quently , quently , and in the New Comedy it ...
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... racter , than the books , which have been pub- lished about a certain great wit lately deceased , whose memory has been so completely diffected by the operators in Stationer's Hall . Though Though I have as much respect for pofterity as ...
... racter , than the books , which have been pub- lished about a certain great wit lately deceased , whose memory has been so completely diffected by the operators in Stationer's Hall . Though Though I have as much respect for pofterity as ...
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