The Tatler; Or, Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq, Том 4C. Bathurst, J. Buckland, W. Strahan, J. and F. Rivington, 1774 |
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... seems to admonish me out of pure zeal and good - will . But as there is no character fo unjust as that of talking in party upon all occafions , without respect to merit or worth on the contrary fide ; so there is no part we can act fo ...
... seems to admonish me out of pure zeal and good - will . But as there is no character fo unjust as that of talking in party upon all occafions , without respect to merit or worth on the contrary fide ; so there is no part we can act fo ...
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... seems , the Play of Alexander is to be then turned into ridicule for its bombaft , and other falfe or naments in the thoughts as well as the language . The blufter Alexander makes is as much inconfiftent with the character of an Hero ...
... seems , the Play of Alexander is to be then turned into ridicule for its bombaft , and other falfe or naments in the thoughts as well as the language . The blufter Alexander makes is as much inconfiftent with the character of an Hero ...
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... seems therefore a fruitless labour , to attempt the correction of the taste of our con- temporaries ; except it was in our power to burn all the fenfelefs labours of our ancestors . There is a fecret pro- penfity in Nature from ...
... seems therefore a fruitless labour , to attempt the correction of the taste of our con- temporaries ; except it was in our power to burn all the fenfelefs labours of our ancestors . There is a fecret pro- penfity in Nature from ...
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... seems at firft thought very wonderful , that one paffion fhould fo univerfally have the pre - eminence of another in the poffeffion of mens minds , as that in this cafe all in general have a fecret hope of the great ticket : And yet ...
... seems at firft thought very wonderful , that one paffion fhould fo univerfally have the pre - eminence of another in the poffeffion of mens minds , as that in this cafe all in general have a fecret hope of the great ticket : And yet ...
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... seems a countryman had wounded himself with his fcythe as he was mowing ; and we were obliged to hear of her Charity , her Medicine , and her Humility , in the harsheft tone , and coarfest language imaginable . What I would requeft in ...
... seems a countryman had wounded himself with his fcythe as he was mowing ; and we were obliged to hear of her Charity , her Medicine , and her Humility , in the harsheft tone , and coarfest language imaginable . What I would requeft in ...
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