The Bee: Or Literary Weekly Intelligencer, Том 3James Anderson Mundell and Son, Parliament Stairs, 1791 |
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... never lasted him longer than a few days . As a fample of his economy , you may take a circum- " ftance , that Johnson himself once told me . 64 It was , at that period , fashionable to wear scarlet cloaks trim- " med with gold lace ...
... never lasted him longer than a few days . As a fample of his economy , you may take a circum- " ftance , that Johnson himself once told me . 64 It was , at that period , fashionable to wear scarlet cloaks trim- " med with gold lace ...
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... never could find a single rhime in my life , could " make blank verfe as fast as I could speak ; nothing but " lazinefs hinders our tragic poets from writing , like the " French , in rhime . Dryden , had he poffeffed but a tenth part of ...
... never could find a single rhime in my life , could " make blank verfe as fast as I could speak ; nothing but " lazinefs hinders our tragic poets from writing , like the " French , in rhime . Dryden , had he poffeffed but a tenth part of ...
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... never spoke but with ridicule and deteftation of the reviews . He faid that it was not eafy to conceive in what contempt they were held in London . I men- tioned a story I had read of Mr. Burke having feduc- ed and dishonoured a young ...
... never spoke but with ridicule and deteftation of the reviews . He faid that it was not eafy to conceive in what contempt they were held in London . I men- tioned a story I had read of Mr. Burke having feduc- ed and dishonoured a young ...
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... never had a " fifter . As to Mr. Burke , he is a worthy honeft man . " He married an accomplished girl , without a fhilling of " fortune . " I wanted to get the Gentleman's Magazine excepted from his general cenfure ; but he would not ...
... never had a " fifter . As to Mr. Burke , he is a worthy honeft man . " He married an accomplished girl , without a fhilling of " fortune . " I wanted to get the Gentleman's Magazine excepted from his general cenfure ; but he would not ...
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... never had any ambition for the reputation of an author , yet I have frequently had it in my head , to write a treatife , which fhould be entitled The Art of Idleness . " The purport of it would be , to teach men , who had no regular ...
... never had any ambition for the reputation of an author , yet I have frequently had it in my head , to write a treatife , which fhould be entitled The Art of Idleness . " The purport of it would be , to teach men , who had no regular ...
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