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... Humour - Genealogy of Humour , 88588 · 96 100 37. Catalogue of a Lady's Library - Character of Leonora ,. 104 39. English Tragedy - Lee - Otway , 109 40. Tragedy and Tragi - Comedy , 114 42 English Tragedy - Methods to aggrandize the ...
... Humour - Genealogy of Humour , 88588 · 96 100 37. Catalogue of a Lady's Library - Character of Leonora ,. 104 39. English Tragedy - Lee - Otway , 109 40. Tragedy and Tragi - Comedy , 114 42 English Tragedy - Methods to aggrandize the ...
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... humour ; but his wit was often forced , and his humour ungraceful ; not but his style would give this appearance to each , being at once incorrect and heavy . His graver papers are universally hard and labored , though , at the same ...
... humour ; but his wit was often forced , and his humour ungraceful ; not but his style would give this appearance to each , being at once incorrect and heavy . His graver papers are universally hard and labored , though , at the same ...
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... humour creates him no enemies , for he does nothing with sourness or obstinacy ; and his being unconfined to modes and forms , makes him but the readier and more capable to please and oblige all who know him . When he is in town , he ...
... humour creates him no enemies , for he does nothing with sourness or obstinacy ; and his being unconfined to modes and forms , makes him but the readier and more capable to please and oblige all who know him . When he is in town , he ...
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... humour- some father , than in pursuit of his own inclinations . He was placed there to study the laws of the land , and is the most learned of any of the house in those of the stage . Aristotle and Longinus are much better understood by ...
... humour- some father , than in pursuit of his own inclinations . He was placed there to study the laws of the land , and is the most learned of any of the house in those of the stage . Aristotle and Longinus are much better understood by ...
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... humour her so far as to take them out of that figure , and place them side by side . What the ab- surdity was which I had committed I did not know , but I sup- pose there was some traditionary superstition in it ; and there- fore , in ...
... humour her so far as to take them out of that figure , and place them side by side . What the ab- surdity was which I had committed I did not know , but I sup- pose there was some traditionary superstition in it ; and there- fore , in ...
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Сторінка 48 - Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep : All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Both day and night.
Сторінка 12 - It is said he keeps himself a bachelor by reason he was crossed in love by a perverse beautiful widow of the next county to him.
Сторінка 83 - When I read the several dates of the tombs, of some that died yesterday, and some six hundred years ago, I consider that great day when we shall all of us be contemporaries, and make our appearance together.
Сторінка 381 - I could discover nothing in it; but the other appeared to me a vast ocean planted with innumerable islands, that were covered with fruits and flowers, and interwoven with a thousand little shining seas that ran among them.
Сторінка 381 - I observed some with scimitars in their hands, and others with urinals, who ran to and fro upon the bridge, thrusting several persons on trap-doors which did not seem to lie in their way, and which they might have escaped, had they not been thus forced upon them. "The genius, seeing me indulge myself in this melancholy prospect, told me I had dwelt long enough upon it. ' Take thine eyes off the bridge,' said he, ' and tell me if thou yet seest anything thou dost not comprehend.' Upon looking up,...
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Сторінка 289 - ... his virtues, as well as imperfections, are as it were tinged by a certain extravagance, which makes them particularly his, and distinguishes them from those of other men. This cast of mind, as it is generally very innocent in itself, so it renders his conversation highly agreeable, and more delightful than the same degree of sense and virtue would appear in their common and ordinary colours.
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Сторінка 379 - I see a bridge, said I, standing in the midst of the tide. The bridge thou seest, said he, is human life ; consider it attentively.
Сторінка 302 - There is not, in my opinion, a more pleasing and triumphant consideration in religion than this, of the perpetual progress which the soul makes towards the perfection of its nature, without ever arriving at a period in it.