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Pagina ix
... fatire was unfelt . The story of Bolingbroke is well known . He called Booth to his box , and gave him fifty guineas for defending the cause of liberty so well against a perpetual dictator . The play , supported thus by the emulation of ...
... fatire was unfelt . The story of Bolingbroke is well known . He called Booth to his box , and gave him fifty guineas for defending the cause of liberty so well against a perpetual dictator . The play , supported thus by the emulation of ...
Pagina 63
... fatires composed by those who scarce know how to write . By the laft poft in particular , I re- ceived a packet of scandal which is not legible ; and have a whole bundle of letters in womens hands that are full of blots and calumnies ...
... fatires composed by those who scarce know how to write . By the laft poft in particular , I re- ceived a packet of scandal which is not legible ; and have a whole bundle of letters in womens hands that are full of blots and calumnies ...
Pagina 88
... fatires that are written with wit and spirit , are like poifoned darts , which not only inflict a wound , but make it incurable . For this reafon I am very much troubled when I fee the talents of hu- mour and ridicule in the poffeffion ...
... fatires that are written with wit and spirit , are like poifoned darts , which not only inflict a wound , but make it incurable . For this reafon I am very much troubled when I fee the talents of hu- mour and ridicule in the poffeffion ...
Pagina 89
... fatire will then chiefly fall upon those who ought to be the most exempt from it . Virtue , merit , and every thing that is praifeworthy , will be made the fubject of ridicule and buffoonry . It is impoffible to enumerate the evils ...
... fatire will then chiefly fall upon those who ought to be the most exempt from it . Virtue , merit , and every thing that is praifeworthy , will be made the fubject of ridicule and buffoonry . It is impoffible to enumerate the evils ...
Pagina 91
... fatire ; as if it were not infinitely more honourable to be a good - natured man than a wit . Where there is this little petulant humour in an author , he is often very mischievous without defigning to be fo . For which reafon I always ...
... fatire ; as if it were not infinitely more honourable to be a good - natured man than a wit . Where there is this little petulant humour in an author , he is often very mischievous without defigning to be fo . For which reafon I always ...
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