Essays: Biographical, Critical, and Historical; Illustrative of the Tatler, Spectator, and Guardian, Volume 2Suttaby, Evance, and Fox, 1814 - English literature |
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... Italian language , which included fifteen cha- racters , all of which he himself personated ; his success in the attempt Sir Thomas thus describes : " The logofascinated spirits of the beholding hearers and auricularie spectators , were ...
... Italian language , which included fifteen cha- racters , all of which he himself personated ; his success in the attempt Sir Thomas thus describes : " The logofascinated spirits of the beholding hearers and auricularie spectators , were ...
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... Italy his choice , whether he would command him to write of Godfrey's expedition against the infidels , Belisarius against the Goths , or Charles main against the Lombards ; if to the instinct of nature , and the emboldening of art ...
... Italy his choice , whether he would command him to write of Godfrey's expedition against the infidels , Belisarius against the Goths , or Charles main against the Lombards ; if to the instinct of nature , and the emboldening of art ...
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... may think , & c . " " If a man considers the face of Italy in general , + Spectator , No. 411 . * Spectator , No. 411 . Spectator , No. 185 . one would think that Nature had laid it out into OF ENGLISH STYLE , & c . 107.
... may think , & c . " " If a man considers the face of Italy in general , + Spectator , No. 411 . * Spectator , No. 411 . Spectator , No. 185 . one would think that Nature had laid it out into OF ENGLISH STYLE , & c . 107.
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... Italian phrase to our Englishe speak yng , the whiche is , as if an Oration that professeth to utter his mynde in plaine Latine , would needes speake poetrie , and farre fetched colours of straunge antiquitie . The lawier will store his ...
... Italian phrase to our Englishe speak yng , the whiche is , as if an Oration that professeth to utter his mynde in plaine Latine , would needes speake poetrie , and farre fetched colours of straunge antiquitie . The lawier will store his ...
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... Italian , " says he , " havyng a sute here in Englande to the Archbishoppe of Yorke that then was , and comyng to Yorke when one of the prebendaries there brake his bread , as they terme it , and thereupon made a solemne longe dinner ...
... Italian , " says he , " havyng a sute here in Englande to the Archbishoppe of Yorke that then was , and comyng to Yorke when one of the prebendaries there brake his bread , as they terme it , and thereupon made a solemne longe dinner ...
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