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Pagina xv
... humour , tenderness , and elegance ; and , if his practice and habits were any thing but moral , his dramas ( during a season of unre- strained licentiousness , ) were strictly so : he seems to have been guided , in this repect , by the ...
... humour , tenderness , and elegance ; and , if his practice and habits were any thing but moral , his dramas ( during a season of unre- strained licentiousness , ) were strictly so : he seems to have been guided , in this repect , by the ...
Pagina xxiv
... humour by Steele , in the " Guardian . " " There is a silly habit among many of our minor orators , who display their eloquence in the several Coffee - houses , to the no small annoyance of considerable numbers of her Majesty's spruce ...
... humour by Steele , in the " Guardian . " " There is a silly habit among many of our minor orators , who display their eloquence in the several Coffee - houses , to the no small annoyance of considerable numbers of her Majesty's spruce ...
Pagina 6
... humour creates him no enemies , for he does nothing with sourness or obstinacy ; and his being unconfined to modes and forms makes him but the readier and more capable to please and oblige all who know him . When he is in town , he ...
... humour creates him no enemies , for he does nothing with sourness or obstinacy ; and his being unconfined to modes and forms makes him but the readier and more capable to please and oblige all who know him . When he is in town , he ...
Pagina 12
... humour another . To follow the dictates of these two latter , is going into a road that is both endless and intricate ; when we pursue the other , our passage is delightful , and what we aim at easily attainable . I do not doubt but ...
... humour another . To follow the dictates of these two latter , is going into a road that is both endless and intricate ; when we pursue the other , our passage is delightful , and what we aim at easily attainable . I do not doubt but ...
Pagina 27
... humour , and think to carry off the most inexcusable of all faults in the world , with no other apology than saying in a gay tone , " I put an impudent face upon the matter . " No : no man shall be allowed the advantages of im- pudence ...
... humour , and think to carry off the most inexcusable of all faults in the world , with no other apology than saying in a gay tone , " I put an impudent face upon the matter . " No : no man shall be allowed the advantages of im- pudence ...
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