Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical, Illustrative of the Tatler, Spectator, and Guardian, Volume 3C. Whittingham, 1805 - English literature |
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... writers , " observes Mr. D'Israeli , in a note on this number of the Spectator , " have made mention of these wonderful lamps ; and the following observation by Marville , appears to give a satisfactory reason of the na- ture of these ...
... writers , " observes Mr. D'Israeli , in a note on this number of the Spectator , " have made mention of these wonderful lamps ; and the following observation by Marville , appears to give a satisfactory reason of the na- ture of these ...
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... writers give , has oc- casioned several ingenious men to search after their com- position . Licetus , who possessed more erudition than love of truth , has given two receipts for making this eterual fire , and which consist of certain ...
... writers give , has oc- casioned several ingenious men to search after their com- position . Licetus , who possessed more erudition than love of truth , has given two receipts for making this eterual fire , and which consist of certain ...
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... writer , editor , and translator . To his poetry , though praised at the time in which it was produced , and since lavishly ex- tolled by Dr. Campbell , in his Biographia Bri- tannica , little value can now be attached . It is chiefly ...
... writer , editor , and translator . To his poetry , though praised at the time in which it was produced , and since lavishly ex- tolled by Dr. Campbell , in his Biographia Bri- tannica , little value can now be attached . It is chiefly ...
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... writers of France and Italy , and the celebrity which attached to his name , as a man of taste and extensive literary * Hughes's Works , vol . ii . p . 90 . VOL . III . D connections , induced the booksellers to consider his assistance ...
... writers of France and Italy , and the celebrity which attached to his name , as a man of taste and extensive literary * Hughes's Works , vol . ii . p . 90 . VOL . III . D connections , induced the booksellers to consider his assistance ...
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... writer , and in 1712 , the Abbe Vertot's History of the Revolution of Portugal . He afterwards obliged the public with versions of Fontenelle's Discourse concerning the Ancients and Moderns , and of The Letters of Abelard and Heloise ...
... writer , and in 1712 , the Abbe Vertot's History of the Revolution of Portugal . He afterwards obliged the public with versions of Fontenelle's Discourse concerning the Ancients and Moderns , and of The Letters of Abelard and Heloise ...
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