The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal, Volume 65R. Griffiths, 1781 - Books |
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Page 37
... character of Belinda , as it is now managed , resembles you in nothing but in beauty . " Though I think , that no compofition can furpafs , or perhaps ever equal this moft happy effort of Genius , as a sportive Satire , I imagined it ...
... character of Belinda , as it is now managed , resembles you in nothing but in beauty . " Though I think , that no compofition can furpafs , or perhaps ever equal this moft happy effort of Genius , as a sportive Satire , I imagined it ...
Page 403
... character , they turned their eyes from the wounding fight . This was the generofity of ancient manners ; but what was the conduct of Englishmen on the affertion of the French minifter , Barillon , published near a hundred years after ...
... character , they turned their eyes from the wounding fight . This was the generofity of ancient manners ; but what was the conduct of Englishmen on the affertion of the French minifter , Barillon , published near a hundred years after ...
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... characters of the illuftrious dead , what hope can we reasonably entertain , that the prefent degeneracy of manners fhould not increase with a rapid courfe through all fucceeding ages ! The contemplation of a great character never fails ...
... characters of the illuftrious dead , what hope can we reasonably entertain , that the prefent degeneracy of manners fhould not increase with a rapid courfe through all fucceeding ages ! The contemplation of a great character never fails ...
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