The Bee: Or Literary Weekly Intelligencer, Том 3James Anderson Mundell and Son, Parliament Stairs, 1791 |
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... writer , and one of those authors who write from one end of the week . to the other , without interruption . A gentleman , who happened to dine with Dr. Campbell in the house of a Common acquaintance , remarked , that he would be glad ...
... writer , and one of those authors who write from one end of the week . to the other , without interruption . A gentleman , who happened to dine with Dr. Campbell in the house of a Common acquaintance , remarked , that he would be glad ...
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... writing merely for the " entertainment of a private circle . " He regarded Swift , both in tile and fentiment , as a pattern of cor- rectness . He read to me fome of the fhort poetical ad- dreffes to Stella , and was particularly ...
... writing merely for the " entertainment of a private circle . " He regarded Swift , both in tile and fentiment , as a pattern of cor- rectness . He read to me fome of the fhort poetical ad- dreffes to Stella , and was particularly ...
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... writing , like the " French , in rhime . Dryden , had he poffeffed but a tenth part of Shakespeare's dramatic genius , would have brought rhyming tragedies into fashion here as well as 66 they are in France , and then the mob would have ...
... writing , like the " French , in rhime . Dryden , had he poffeffed but a tenth part of Shakespeare's dramatic genius , would have brought rhyming tragedies into fashion here as well as 66 they are in France , and then the mob would have ...
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... write " like a gentleman . I dislike that homely ftile which " fome think fit to call the language of nature and fim- plicity , and fo forth . In Percy's reliques too , a few " tolerable pieces are buried under a heap of rubbish . " You ...
... write " like a gentleman . I dislike that homely ftile which " fome think fit to call the language of nature and fim- plicity , and fo forth . In Percy's reliques too , a few " tolerable pieces are buried under a heap of rubbish . " You ...
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... write a treatife , which fhould be entitled The Art of Idleness . " The purport of it would be , to teach men , who had no regular business , and were above the neceffity of pursuing fome occupation , how to pass their time in- nocently ...
... write a treatife , which fhould be entitled The Art of Idleness . " The purport of it would be , to teach men , who had no regular business , and were above the neceffity of pursuing fome occupation , how to pass their time in- nocently ...
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