The Observer: Being a Collection of Moral, Literary and Familiar Essays, Volume 4C. Dilly, 1788 - Conduct of life |
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... ftands without a rival ; her painters , fculptors and engravers are now the only schools , properly fo called , in Europe ; Rome will bear witness that the English artists are as fuperior in talents as they are in numbers to those of ...
... ftands without a rival ; her painters , fculptors and engravers are now the only schools , properly fo called , in Europe ; Rome will bear witness that the English artists are as fuperior in talents as they are in numbers to those of ...
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... ftands that he is ridiculed by every body in it ; whether it is convenient to him always to walk with a ftiff back and a ftern countenance ; and laftly , whether he is perfectly fure , that he has that ftrength and felf - fupport in his ...
... ftands that he is ridiculed by every body in it ; whether it is convenient to him always to walk with a ftiff back and a ftern countenance ; and laftly , whether he is perfectly fure , that he has that ftrength and felf - fupport in his ...
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... ftands upon the authority of Clemens Alexandrinus and Stobæus as a writer of the Middle Comedy , and a drama- tit of a very moral and pathetic turn ; his frag ments fully verify that character . A perfon in one of his dramas relates the ...
... ftands upon the authority of Clemens Alexandrinus and Stobæus as a writer of the Middle Comedy , and a drama- tit of a very moral and pathetic turn ; his frag ments fully verify that character . A perfon in one of his dramas relates the ...
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... ftands ftill to be furveyed , and presents fo bold a front , and levels it so fully to our view , as feems to challenge the compass and the rule of the critic , and defy him to find out an error in the fcale and compofition of his ...
... ftands ftill to be furveyed , and presents fo bold a front , and levels it so fully to our view , as feems to challenge the compass and the rule of the critic , and defy him to find out an error in the fcale and compofition of his ...
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... ftands with a Chorus of fuch irregular measure , might be recited or given in reprefentation . Now it is well known to every man con- verfant in the Greek theatre , how the Chorus , which in fact is the parent of the drama , came in ...
... ftands with a Chorus of fuch irregular measure , might be recited or given in reprefentation . Now it is well known to every man con- verfant in the Greek theatre , how the Chorus , which in fact is the parent of the drama , came in ...
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