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Page 176
... see how Sophocles has conducted tragedy under the like delicate circumftanccs . Oreftes was in the fame condition with Hanilet in Shakespear , his mother having murdered his father , and taken poffeffion of his kingdom in confpiracy ...
... see how Sophocles has conducted tragedy under the like delicate circumftanccs . Oreftes was in the fame condition with Hanilet in Shakespear , his mother having murdered his father , and taken poffeffion of his kingdom in confpiracy ...
Page 179
... see a man , because she was not ftirring ; and a porter would have been thought unfit for his place that could have made fo awkward an excufe . As I love to fee every thing that is new , I once prevailed upon my friend Will Honeycomb to ...
... see a man , because she was not ftirring ; and a porter would have been thought unfit for his place that could have made fo awkward an excufe . As I love to fee every thing that is new , I once prevailed upon my friend Will Honeycomb to ...
Page 180
... see her interrupted in an account of her travels , by a meffage to her footman ; and holding her tongue in the midst of a moral reflection , by apply- ing the tip of it to a patch ! There is nothing which expofes a woman to greater ...
... see her interrupted in an account of her travels , by a meffage to her footman ; and holding her tongue in the midst of a moral reflection , by apply- ing the tip of it to a patch ! There is nothing which expofes a woman to greater ...
Page 188
... see , in proportion as one man is more refined than another , he chooses his fool out of a lower or higher clafs of mankind ; or , to fpeak in a more philofophical language , that fecret elation and pride of heart which is generally ...
... see , in proportion as one man is more refined than another , he chooses his fool out of a lower or higher clafs of mankind ; or , to fpeak in a more philofophical language , that fecret elation and pride of heart which is generally ...
Page 196
... see you are the better man for his fervices ; and that you are as ready to oblige others as he is to oblige you . In the private exigencies of his friends he lends , at legal value , confiderable fums , which he might highly increase by ...
... see you are the better man for his fervices ; and that you are as ready to oblige others as he is to oblige you . In the private exigencies of his friends he lends , at legal value , confiderable fums , which he might highly increase by ...
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