The SpectatorRichard Eyres, 1778 - Great Britain |
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Page 46
... common discourse , though we do not attend to it , and is fuch a due medium between rhyme and profe , that it feems wonderfully adapted to tragedy . I am therefore very much offended when I fee a play in rhyme ; which is as abfurd in En ...
... common discourse , though we do not attend to it , and is fuch a due medium between rhyme and profe , that it feems wonderfully adapted to tragedy . I am therefore very much offended when I fee a play in rhyme ; which is as abfurd in En ...
Page 55
... common among Diffenters , especially friends . Lectures in the ' morning , church - meetings at noon , and prepara- ' tion - fermons at night , take up fo much of her 6 " 6 dinner , unless when the preacher is to be at it . With him ...
... common among Diffenters , especially friends . Lectures in the ' morning , church - meetings at noon , and prepara- ' tion - fermons at night , take up fo much of her 6 " 6 dinner , unless when the preacher is to be at it . With him ...
Page 56
... common people of all countries admire , and feem to love fo well , that they could eat them , ' according to the old proverb ; I mean thofe circumforaneous wits whom every nation calls by the name of that dish of meat which it loves ...
... common people of all countries admire , and feem to love fo well , that they could eat them , ' according to the old proverb ; I mean thofe circumforaneous wits whom every nation calls by the name of that dish of meat which it loves ...
Page 73
... common ; and for that rea- fon eafy to be put into verfe . Marry , fays I , if it be fo , I am very well rewarded for all the pains I have been at . But by Monfieur Gombaud's leave , notwithstanding the severity of the criti- cifm , the ...
... common ; and for that rea- fon eafy to be put into verfe . Marry , fays I , if it be fo , I am very well rewarded for all the pains I have been at . But by Monfieur Gombaud's leave , notwithstanding the severity of the criti- cifm , the ...
Page 75
... common fenfe , who would neither relifh nor comprehend an epigram of Martial , or a po- em of Cowley ; fo , on the contrary , an ordinary fong or ballad that is the delight of the common people , cannot fail to please all fuch readers ...
... common fenfe , who would neither relifh nor comprehend an epigram of Martial , or a po- em of Cowley ; fo , on the contrary , an ordinary fong or ballad that is the delight of the common people , cannot fail to please all fuch readers ...
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