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Pagina 8
... prefent , that I am of opinion , to polish our un- derstandings and neglect our manners , is of all things the most inexcufabie . Reafon fhould go- wern paffion , but instead of that , you fee , it is often fubfervient to it ; and as ...
... prefent , that I am of opinion , to polish our un- derstandings and neglect our manners , is of all things the most inexcufabie . Reafon fhould go- wern paffion , but instead of that , you fee , it is often fubfervient to it ; and as ...
Pagina 17
... prefent , is only grown more childish , not more innocent , than the former . While I was in this train of thought , an odd fellow , whofe face I have often feen at the play - house , gave me the following letter with thefe words ...
... prefent , is only grown more childish , not more innocent , than the former . While I was in this train of thought , an odd fellow , whofe face I have often feen at the play - house , gave me the following letter with thefe words ...
Pagina 22
... prefent , that the whole opera is performed in an unknown tongue . We no longer understand the language of our own ftage ; info- much that I have often been afraid , when I have seen our Italian performers chattering in the ve- hemence ...
... prefent , that the whole opera is performed in an unknown tongue . We no longer understand the language of our own ftage ; info- much that I have often been afraid , when I have seen our Italian performers chattering in the ve- hemence ...
Pagina 31
... prefent war had filled the church with many of thefe uninhabited monuments , which had been erected to the memory of per- fons whofe bodies were perhaps buried in the plains of Blenheim , or in the bofom of the ocean . But to return to ...
... prefent war had filled the church with many of thefe uninhabited monuments , which had been erected to the memory of per- fons whofe bodies were perhaps buried in the plains of Blenheim , or in the bofom of the ocean . But to return to ...
Pagina 42
... prefent age , I fhall not fcruple , for the future , to fingle out any of the fmall wits , that infest the world with fuch compofitions as are ill - natured , immoral , and abfurd . This is the only exception which I fhall make to the ...
... prefent age , I fhall not fcruple , for the future , to fingle out any of the fmall wits , that infest the world with fuch compofitions as are ill - natured , immoral , and abfurd . This is the only exception which I fhall make to the ...
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