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Page 156
... mean or criminal effects of vanity ; since I always employed my influence on the side of virtue , and never ... means exuberant , inclined me to be pleased with a friend who was willing to be entertained at his own charge . I be ...
... mean or criminal effects of vanity ; since I always employed my influence on the side of virtue , and never ... means exuberant , inclined me to be pleased with a friend who was willing to be entertained at his own charge . I be ...
Page 212
... means to be im- puted to nature , or considered as inseparable from an early display of uncommon abilities . They may be certainly escaped by prudence and resolution , and must therefore be recounted rather as consola- tions to those ...
... means to be im- puted to nature , or considered as inseparable from an early display of uncommon abilities . They may be certainly escaped by prudence and resolution , and must therefore be recounted rather as consola- tions to those ...
Page 288
... means universally necessary that the personages should be either mean or corrupt , nor always requi- site that the action should be trivial , nor ever , that it should be fictitious . If the two kinds of dramatic poetry had been de ...
... means universally necessary that the personages should be either mean or corrupt , nor always requi- site that the action should be trivial , nor ever , that it should be fictitious . If the two kinds of dramatic poetry had been de ...
Contents
Peevishness equally wretched and offensivethe Character of Tetrica | 74 |
The World never known but by a Change of Fortune the History of Melissa | 75 |
The Arts by which bad Men are reconciled to them selves | 76 |
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