The Observer: Being a Collection of Moral, Literary and Familiar Essays, Volume 4C. Dilly, 1788 - Conduct of life |
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... comedy of the Greeks ; anecdotes of Alexis ; fragments of that dramatic poet collected 62 CI . The fame collection continued and con- cluded . Anecdotes of Antiphanes 72 CII . Collection of fragments from the come- dies of Antiphanes 80 ...
... comedy of the Greeks ; anecdotes of Alexis ; fragments of that dramatic poet collected 62 CI . The fame collection continued and con- cluded . Anecdotes of Antiphanes 72 CII . Collection of fragments from the come- dies of Antiphanes 80 ...
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... comedy : Gene- ral obfervation upon these poets and the author's address to his readers upon this portion of his work 113 CVII . The notion of a certain humourist that death might be avoided at will ; re- marks confequent thereto , and ...
... comedy : Gene- ral obfervation upon these poets and the author's address to his readers upon this portion of his work 113 CVII . The notion of a certain humourist that death might be avoided at will ; re- marks confequent thereto , and ...
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... Comedy ; I am next to fpeak of that clafs of authors , who are generally filed writers of The Middle Comedy . The fpirit of a free people will difcover itself in in the productions of their stage ; the comic drama 62 No 99 % THE OBSERVER .
... Comedy ; I am next to fpeak of that clafs of authors , who are generally filed writers of The Middle Comedy . The fpirit of a free people will difcover itself in in the productions of their stage ; the comic drama 62 No 99 % THE OBSERVER .
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... Comedy . Cratinus alfo , though the bitterest of all the old writers , began to fweeten his gall , and , conforming to the ne- ceffity of the times , condefcended to take up with the resource of parody , and wrote his Ulyffes upon the ...
... Comedy . Cratinus alfo , though the bitterest of all the old writers , began to fweeten his gall , and , conforming to the ne- ceffity of the times , condefcended to take up with the resource of parody , and wrote his Ulyffes upon the ...
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... Comedy from the famples and fragments of thofe dramatifts , who properly and exclufively belong to it , I find nothing which difpofes me to fufpect that it had in the leaft de- clined from the merit of the first writers , but on the ...
... Comedy from the famples and fragments of thofe dramatifts , who properly and exclufively belong to it , I find nothing which difpofes me to fufpect that it had in the leaft de- clined from the merit of the first writers , but on the ...
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