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Page 50
... fit to undertake a work whereo in there will necessarily occur so many secret
instincts , • and biasses of human nature which would pass unobserved by
common eyes . I thank heaven I have no outrageous offence against my own
excellent ...
... fit to undertake a work whereo in there will necessarily occur so many secret
instincts , • and biasses of human nature which would pass unobserved by
common eyes . I thank heaven I have no outrageous offence against my own
excellent ...
Page 55
... people have taken up from reading the many agreeable things which have
been writ on that fubject , for which we are beholden to excellent persons who
delighted in being retired and abstracted from the pleasures that inchant the
generality ...
... people have taken up from reading the many agreeable things which have
been writ on that fubject , for which we are beholden to excellent persons who
delighted in being retired and abstracted from the pleasures that inchant the
generality ...
Page 58
I have an inclination to print the following letters ; for that I have heard the author
of them has somewhere cr other feen me , and by an excellent faculty in mimicry
my correspondents tell me he can assume my air , and give my iaciturnity a ...
I have an inclination to print the following letters ; for that I have heard the author
of them has somewhere cr other feen me , and by an excellent faculty in mimicry
my correspondents tell me he can assume my air , and give my iaciturnity a ...
Page 65
The examination of a young girl for business , and the crying down her value for
being a flight thing , together with every other circumstance in the scene , are
inimitably excellent , and have the true spirit of comedy , though though it were to
be ...
The examination of a young girl for business , and the crying down her value for
being a flight thing , together with every other circumstance in the scene , are
inimitably excellent , and have the true spirit of comedy , though though it were to
be ...
Page 81
But when my admin ration is fixed upon this excellent character , and two or three
others in the play , I must confess I was moved with the utmost indignation at the
trivial , senseless , and unnatural representation of the chaplain . It is pofsible ...
But when my admin ration is fixed upon this excellent character , and two or three
others in the play , I must confess I was moved with the utmost indignation at the
trivial , senseless , and unnatural representation of the chaplain . It is pofsible ...
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