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Pagina 91
... kind of regular figure ) bored and hollowed with incredible pains and industry , till they had wrought in it all those beautiful vaults and caverns into which it is divided at this day . As soon as this rock was thus curiously scooped ...
... kind of regular figure ) bored and hollowed with incredible pains and industry , till they had wrought in it all those beautiful vaults and caverns into which it is divided at this day . As soon as this rock was thus curiously scooped ...
Pagina 101
... kind of wit suaded that so fine a writer as Theocritus could without loss of time , as being provided better than have been the author of any such simple works . any other poets with verses of all sizes and di- mensions . - C . It was ...
... kind of wit suaded that so fine a writer as Theocritus could without loss of time , as being provided better than have been the author of any such simple works . any other poets with verses of all sizes and di- mensions . - C . It was ...
Pagina 102
... kind of wit was very much in vogue among our own countrymen about an age or two ago , who did not practice it for any oblique rea- son , as the ancients above - mentioned , but purely for the sake of being witty . Among innumerable ...
... kind of wit was very much in vogue among our own countrymen about an age or two ago , who did not practice it for any oblique rea- son , as the ancients above - mentioned , but purely for the sake of being witty . Among innumerable ...
Pagina 103
... kind of wit . If the of it ; for it is his business to find out one word reader will be at the trouble to see examples of it , that conceals itself in another , and to examine the let him look into the new Mercure Gallant ; where ...
... kind of wit . If the of it ; for it is his business to find out one word reader will be at the trouble to see examples of it , that conceals itself in another , and to examine the let him look into the new Mercure Gallant ; where ...
Pagina 104
... kind of false wit which has been so recommended by the practice of all ages , as that which consists in a jingle of words , and is com- prehended under the general name of punning . It is indeed impossible to kill a weed which the soil ...
... kind of false wit which has been so recommended by the practice of all ages , as that which consists in a jingle of words , and is com- prehended under the general name of punning . It is indeed impossible to kill a weed which the soil ...
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