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... merit , and fome of no merit at all : we hope we fhall make it appear that your own interefts , as well as our fatisfaction , require it of you to do hereafter what we are almost ashamed to mention , as a thing yet to be done , to ...
... merit , and fome of no merit at all : we hope we fhall make it appear that your own interefts , as well as our fatisfaction , require it of you to do hereafter what we are almost ashamed to mention , as a thing yet to be done , to ...
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... merits of our ob- fervations as you are , and we flatter our- félves , that when you are convinced ' tis your intereft to confider things in the light in which we reprefent them , you will not fail to give them your fanction , by ...
... merits of our ob- fervations as you are , and we flatter our- félves , that when you are convinced ' tis your intereft to confider things in the light in which we reprefent them , you will not fail to give them your fanction , by ...
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... merit , even than they allow them , and have the good fortune to be efteemed much better performers , than they really are . It is not eafy to avoid the allowing a good un- derstanding , even to perfons who excel in arts . that are ...
... merit , even than they allow them , and have the good fortune to be efteemed much better performers , than they really are . It is not eafy to avoid the allowing a good un- derstanding , even to perfons who excel in arts . that are ...
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... merit in a former en- tertainment , into a palace for Comus . He feemed to have confidered it as an unneceffary piece of luxury ( to use the words of a very celebrated writer , who chufes to be nameless on thefe oc- cafions ) to treat ...
... merit in a former en- tertainment , into a palace for Comus . He feemed to have confidered it as an unneceffary piece of luxury ( to use the words of a very celebrated writer , who chufes to be nameless on thefe oc- cafions ) to treat ...
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... merit in thefe lines , than in half the tragedies that have been applauded within these feven years . Nay we had occafion to obferve , that not only an elevated fentiment , but the mere fpirit of poetry , when rais'd to the pitch it ...
... merit in thefe lines , than in half the tragedies that have been applauded within these feven years . Nay we had occafion to obferve , that not only an elevated fentiment , but the mere fpirit of poetry , when rais'd to the pitch it ...
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