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Page 94
... kind ; who follow no business - are led by no ideas of im- provement - but fpend their time in diffipation and folly - whofe highest praise it is , that they are only not vi- cious . With none of these , a serious man would with his fon ...
... kind ; who follow no business - are led by no ideas of im- provement - but fpend their time in diffipation and folly - whofe highest praise it is , that they are only not vi- cious . With none of these , a serious man would with his fon ...
Page 222
... kind of plays too , in thefe early times , derived from what they had feen of the Tufcan actors , when fent for to Rome to expiate a plague that raged in the city . Thefe feem to have been either like our dumb - fhews , or else a kind ...
... kind of plays too , in thefe early times , derived from what they had feen of the Tufcan actors , when fent for to Rome to expiate a plague that raged in the city . Thefe feem to have been either like our dumb - fhews , or else a kind ...
Page 460
... kind may be justified by the authority of the Roman fatirift : yet furely those who entertain that notion , have not thoroughly attended either to the pre- cepts or the practice of Horace . He has attributed , I confefs , his fatirical ...
... kind may be justified by the authority of the Roman fatirift : yet furely those who entertain that notion , have not thoroughly attended either to the pre- cepts or the practice of Horace . He has attributed , I confefs , his fatirical ...
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Diversity of Geniuses | 36 |
The Manners of a Bookfeller | 42 |
Epicuruss Character | 48 |
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