The Rambler, Volume 3W. Strahan, J. Rivington and Sons, J. Hinton, B. Collins, T. Longman, T. Caslon, B. Law, T. Carnan, G. Robinson, T. Lowndes, T. Cadell, H. Baldwin, F. Newbery, J. Knox, J. Bew, J. Nichols, W. Goldsmith, and W. Fox, 1779 |
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... seems abfurd for an author to counteract himself , to prefs at once with equal force upon both parts of the intellectual balance , or give medicines , which , like the double poifor of Dryden , deftroy the force of one another . I have ...
... seems abfurd for an author to counteract himself , to prefs at once with equal force upon both parts of the intellectual balance , or give medicines , which , like the double poifor of Dryden , deftroy the force of one another . I have ...
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... seem willing to defpair of its efficacy , and of those who employ their fpeculations upon the prefent corruption of the people , fome propose the introduction of more horrid , lingering , and terrifick punishments ; fome are inclined to ...
... seem willing to defpair of its efficacy , and of those who employ their fpeculations upon the prefent corruption of the people , fome propose the introduction of more horrid , lingering , and terrifick punishments ; fome are inclined to ...
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... seem to con- clude , that when they have disfigured their lines with a few obfolete fyllables , they have accom- plished their defign , without confidering that they ought not only to admit old words , but to avoid ' The laws of ...
... seem to con- clude , that when they have disfigured their lines with a few obfolete fyllables , they have accom- plished their defign , without confidering that they ought not only to admit old words , but to avoid ' The laws of ...
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... seem to have thought , that as the meanness of perfonages conftituted comedy , their greatness was fufficient to form a tragedy ; and that nothing was necef- fary fary but that they fhould croud the scene with monarchs 118 No 125 . THE ...
... seem to have thought , that as the meanness of perfonages conftituted comedy , their greatness was fufficient to form a tragedy ; and that nothing was necef- fary fary but that they fhould croud the scene with monarchs 118 No 125 . THE ...
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... informed us how it may be gratified . The world seems to have formed an univerfal confpiracy against our understandings ; our questions are supposed not not to expect answers , our arguments are con- futed 128 No 126 . THE RAMBLER .
... informed us how it may be gratified . The world seems to have formed an univerfal confpiracy against our understandings ; our questions are supposed not not to expect answers , our arguments are con- futed 128 No 126 . THE RAMBLER .
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