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professed want of principle gives a sort of zest and high seasoning to their confidential communications , which Vanbrugh could supply as well as any body . But he could not do without the taint of grossness and licentiousness .
professed want of principle gives a sort of zest and high seasoning to their confidential communications , which Vanbrugh could supply as well as any body . But he could not do without the taint of grossness and licentiousness .
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The attempt at getting up genteel comedy at present is a sort of Galvanic experiment , a revival of the dead.i I have observed in a former Lecture , that the most spirited æra of I have only to add , by way of explanation on this ...
The attempt at getting up genteel comedy at present is a sort of Galvanic experiment , a revival of the dead.i I have observed in a former Lecture , that the most spirited æra of I have only to add , by way of explanation on this ...
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But Bacon was a sort of prose - laureat to the reigning prince , and his loyalty had never been suspected . In recommending learned men as fit counsellors in a state , he thus points out the deficiencies of the mere empiric or man of ...
But Bacon was a sort of prose - laureat to the reigning prince , and his loyalty had never been suspected . In recommending learned men as fit counsellors in a state , he thus points out the deficiencies of the mere empiric or man of ...
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| Title | The Complete Works of William Hazlitt, Volume 6 The Complete Works of William Hazlitt, Percival Presland Howe |
| Author | William Hazlitt |
| Editors | Percival Presland Howe, Alfred Rayney Waller, Arnold Glover |
| Compiled by | James Thornton |
| Publisher | J. M. Dent and Sons, Limited, 1931 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 16 Jul 2007 |
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