The Spectator, Volume 2Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele J. Tonson, 1724 |
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... of our English Tragedy . I must in the next place obferve , that when our Thoughts are great and juft , they are often obfcured by the founding Phra- Phrafes , hard Metaphors , and forced Expreffions in which N ° 39. The SPECTATOR . 13.
... of our English Tragedy . I must in the next place obferve , that when our Thoughts are great and juft , they are often obfcured by the founding Phra- Phrafes , hard Metaphors , and forced Expreffions in which N ° 39. The SPECTATOR . 13.
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... Place , and is to be heard of at the House of Minbeer Grotefque , a Dutch Painter in Barbican . N. B. She is also well skilled in the Drapery - part , and puts on Hoods and mixes Ribbons fo as to fuit the Colours of the Face with great ...
... Place , and is to be heard of at the House of Minbeer Grotefque , a Dutch Painter in Barbican . N. B. She is also well skilled in the Drapery - part , and puts on Hoods and mixes Ribbons fo as to fuit the Colours of the Face with great ...
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... Place is due to Thunder and Lightning , which are of ten made ufe of at the Defcending of a God , or the Rifing of a Ghoft , at the Vanishing of a Devil , or at the Death of a Tyrant . I have known a Bell in- troduced into feveral ...
... Place is due to Thunder and Lightning , which are of ten made ufe of at the Defcending of a God , or the Rifing of a Ghoft , at the Vanishing of a Devil , or at the Death of a Tyrant . I have known a Bell in- troduced into feveral ...
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... Place in feveral Tra- gedies . A modern Writer , that ob- ferved how this had took in other Plays , being refolved to double the Distress , and melt his Audience twice as much as those before him had done , brought a Princess upon the ...
... Place in feveral Tra- gedies . A modern Writer , that ob- ferved how this had took in other Plays , being refolved to double the Distress , and melt his Audience twice as much as those before him had done , brought a Princess upon the ...
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... Place in him . However , to avoid publick Bloodshed , as foon as his Paffion is wrought to its Height , he follows his Sifter the whole length of the Stage , and forbears killing her till they are both withdrawn behind the Scenes . I ...
... Place in him . However , to avoid publick Bloodshed , as foon as his Paffion is wrought to its Height , he follows his Sifter the whole length of the Stage , and forbears killing her till they are both withdrawn behind the Scenes . I ...
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