The Works of Samuel Johnson.LL.D..: A dissertation upon the Greek comedy, translated from Brumoy. General conclusion to Brumoy's Greek theatre. Miscellaneous observations on the tragedy of Macbeth. Adventurer. History of Rasselas, prince of AbissiniaT. Longman, B. White and Son, B. Law, J. Dodsley, H. Baldwin, J. Robson, J Johnson, C. Dilly, T. Vernor, G. G. J. and J. Robinson, T. Cadell, J. Nichols, R. Baldwin, N. Conant, P. Elmsly, F. and C. Rivington, T. Payne, W. Goldsmith, R. Faulder, Leigh and Sotheby, G. Nicol, J. Murray, A. Strahan, W. Lowndes, T. Evans, W. Bent, S. Hayes, G. and T. Wilkie, T. and J. Egerton, W. Fox, P. M.'Queen, Ogilvie and Speale, Darton and Harvey, G. and C. Kearsley, W. Millar, B. C. Collins, and E. Newbery., 1792 |
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... occafion , it would have lafted too long , and , like many other fayings amongst us , been too well received . The beft is , that Plutarch himself confeffes that it was extremely ap- plauded . The third charge is , a mixture of tragic ...
... occafion , it would have lafted too long , and , like many other fayings amongst us , been too well received . The beft is , that Plutarch himself confeffes that it was extremely ap- plauded . The third charge is , a mixture of tragic ...
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... occafion than transcribe the twenty - fifth reflection of Rapin upon poetry in particular . General rules of comedy . # XIII . " Comedy , fays he * , is a re- prefentation of common life : its end " is to fhew the faults of particular ...
... occafion than transcribe the twenty - fifth reflection of Rapin upon poetry in particular . General rules of comedy . # XIII . " Comedy , fays he * , is a re- prefentation of common life : its end " is to fhew the faults of particular ...
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... occafion to the paf- toral comedies , for which we are chiefly indebted to Italy , and which are there more cultivated than in France . It is , however , a kind of exhibition that would have its charms , if it was touched with elegance ...
... occafion to the paf- toral comedies , for which we are chiefly indebted to Italy , and which are there more cultivated than in France . It is , however , a kind of exhibition that would have its charms , if it was touched with elegance ...
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... occafion , withou own , to very bad copies . No man oug either the ancients or the moderns : bu fary to run into an extreme of one s which is never done by a judicious ar mind , it would be better for a wit , as f . enrich himself by ...
... occafion , withou own , to very bad copies . No man oug either the ancients or the moderns : bu fary to run into an extreme of one s which is never done by a judicious ar mind , it would be better for a wit , as f . enrich himself by ...
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... occafion of a quarrel , and is to be found in that fense in Holling- head's account of the ftory of Macbeth , who , upon the creation of the prince of Cumberland , thought , fays the historian , that he had a just quarrel to endeavour ...
... occafion of a quarrel , and is to be found in that fense in Holling- head's account of the ftory of Macbeth , who , upon the creation of the prince of Cumberland , thought , fays the historian , that he had a just quarrel to endeavour ...
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Page 64 - This guest of summer, The temple-haunting martlet, does approve By his loved mansionry that the heaven's breath Smells wooingly here : no jutty, frieze, Buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this bird Hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle : Where they most breed and haunt, I have observed The air is delicate.
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Page 63 - Implored your highness' pardon and set forth A deep repentance: nothing in his life Became him like the leaving it; he died As one that had been studied in his death, To throw away the dearest thing he owed As 'twere a careless trifle.
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