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Pagina 19
... ridiculous to draw the country only upon the scenes , and to crowd several parts of the stage with sheep and oxen . This is joining together inconsistences , and making the decoration partly real and partly imaginary . I would recommend ...
... ridiculous to draw the country only upon the scenes , and to crowd several parts of the stage with sheep and oxen . This is joining together inconsistences , and making the decoration partly real and partly imaginary . I would recommend ...
Pagina 24
... ridiculous as age ? I make this abrupt transition to the mention of this vice more than any other , in order to introduce a little story , which I think a pretty instance that the most polite age is in danger of being the most vicious ...
... ridiculous as age ? I make this abrupt transition to the mention of this vice more than any other , in order to introduce a little story , which I think a pretty instance that the most polite age is in danger of being the most vicious ...
Pagina 63
... He diverts himself likewise by representing to his reader the make of an engine and pulley , with which he used to take off his hat . When there happens to be any thing ridiculous in a visage NO . 17 . 63 THE SPECTATOR .
... He diverts himself likewise by representing to his reader the make of an engine and pulley , with which he used to take off his hat . When there happens to be any thing ridiculous in a visage NO . 17 . 63 THE SPECTATOR .
Pagina 64
there happens to be any thing ridiculous in a visage , and the owner thinks it an aspect of dignity , he must be of very great quality to be exempt from raillery : the best expedient , therefore , is to be pleasant upon himself . Prince ...
there happens to be any thing ridiculous in a visage , and the owner thinks it an aspect of dignity , he must be of very great quality to be exempt from raillery : the best expedient , therefore , is to be pleasant upon himself . Prince ...
Pagina 103
... ridiculous for the ingenious Mrs SAL- MON to have lived at the sign of the trout ; for which reason she has erected before her house the figure of the fish that is her name - sake . Mr BELL has likewise di- stinguished himself by a ...
... ridiculous for the ingenious Mrs SAL- MON to have lived at the sign of the trout ; for which reason she has erected before her house the figure of the fish that is her name - sake . Mr BELL has likewise di- stinguished himself by a ...
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