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Thespis was first , who , all besmear'd with goat was the sacrifice offered to that
god : after the facrifice , the priests , And with his carted actors , and a song ,
Began this pleasure for posterity : and all the company attending , sung Amus'd
the ...
Thespis was first , who , all besmear'd with goat was the sacrifice offered to that
god : after the facrifice , the priests , And with his carted actors , and a song ,
Began this pleasure for posterity : and all the company attending , sung Amus'd
the ...
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ON MOUNTA IN S. So pleas'd at first the towering Alps we try , Mount o'er the
vales , and seem to tread the sky ; Th ' eternal snoavs appear already past , And
the first clouds and mountains seem the last : But , those attain'd , we tremble to ...
ON MOUNTA IN S. So pleas'd at first the towering Alps we try , Mount o'er the
vales , and seem to tread the sky ; Th ' eternal snoavs appear already past , And
the first clouds and mountains seem the last : But , those attain'd , we tremble to ...
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There is one quarter of your having given up all I had left in the first year's salary .
I hope , and I world , I was still going to devote my foresee , that it will go on in a
prowhole life to labour for their benefit ; gressive increase . ' and entreated them ...
There is one quarter of your having given up all I had left in the first year's salary .
I hope , and I world , I was still going to devote my foresee , that it will go on in a
prowhole life to labour for their benefit ; gressive increase . ' and entreated them ...
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Speed observes , that the Whether the eulogies which have first discharge of
arrows from the been so liberally passed on the English Norman army , was a
kind of fight archers , by English writers , be per- both strange and terrible unto
the ...
Speed observes , that the Whether the eulogies which have first discharge of
arrows from the been so liberally passed on the English Norman army , was a
kind of fight archers , by English writers , be per- both strange and terrible unto
the ...
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This comedy is the first admiral Cleveland , by whom she is difproduction of Mr.
Joseph Richardson , a covered , and most kindly received , and gentleman of the
law . The characters by whose mediation , aided by those of his were thus ...
This comedy is the first admiral Cleveland , by whom she is difproduction of Mr.
Joseph Richardson , a covered , and most kindly received , and gentleman of the
law . The characters by whose mediation , aided by those of his were thus ...
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