The Spectator, Volume 1George Washington Greene J.B. Lippincott Company, 1880 |
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... which some of the leading Tories were supposed to be plotting with the connivance of the Queen herself . - G . would be ridiculous to draw the country only upon the No. 5. ] 23 SPECTATOR . 1833 Ill-natured Satire, 65.
... which some of the leading Tories were supposed to be plotting with the connivance of the Queen herself . - G . would be ridiculous to draw the country only upon the No. 5. ] 23 SPECTATOR . 1833 Ill-natured Satire, 65.
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George Washington Greene. would be ridiculous to draw the country only upon the scenes , and to crowd several parts of the stage with sheep and oxen . This is joining together inconsistencies , and making the decoration partly real and ...
George Washington Greene. would be ridiculous to draw the country only upon the scenes , and to crowd several parts of the stage with sheep and oxen . This is joining together inconsistencies , and making the decoration partly real and ...
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... ridiculous for the ingenious Mrs. Salmon to have lived at the sign of the trout ; for which reason she has erected before her house the figure of the fish that is her namesake . Mr. Bell has likewise distin guished himself by a device ...
... ridiculous for the ingenious Mrs. Salmon to have lived at the sign of the trout ; for which reason she has erected before her house the figure of the fish that is her namesake . Mr. Bell has likewise distin guished himself by a device ...
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... ridiculous doctrine în modern criticism , that they are obliged to an equal distribution of rewards and punishments , and an impartial execution of poeti cal justice . ' Who were the first that established this rule I know not ; but I ...
... ridiculous doctrine în modern criticism , that they are obliged to an equal distribution of rewards and punishments , and an impartial execution of poeti cal justice . ' Who were the first that established this rule I know not ; but I ...
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... ridiculous in the English theatre . When the author has a mind to terrify us , it thunders ; when he would make us melancholy , the stage is darkened . But among all our tragic artifices , I am the most offended at those which are made ...
... ridiculous in the English theatre . When the author has a mind to terrify us , it thunders ; when he would make us melancholy , the stage is darkened . But among all our tragic artifices , I am the most offended at those which are made ...
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