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... writing it , began to pull in pieces the supposed writer . When that would not OBSERVING one person behold another , who was do , they took great pains to suppress the opinion an utter stranger to him , with a cast of his eye , that it ...
... writing it , began to pull in pieces the supposed writer . When that would not OBSERVING one person behold another , who was do , they took great pains to suppress the opinion an utter stranger to him , with a cast of his eye , that it ...
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... writing there is none in which scended from Good Sense ; if not , they may con- authors are more apt to miscarry ... writers , who set up for men of humour , what wild has not in him a mixture of both parents , that is , irregular ...
... writing there is none in which scended from Good Sense ; if not , they may con- authors are more apt to miscarry ... writers , who set up for men of humour , what wild has not in him a mixture of both parents , that is , irregular ...
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... writer ; not at the vice , or the writing . ADDISON . N ° 36. WEDNESDAY , APRIL 11 , 1711 . Perferimus : -Immania monstra C. VIRG . En . iii . 583 . Things the most out of nature we endure . I SHALL not put myself to any further pains ...
... writer ; not at the vice , or the writing . ADDISON . N ° 36. WEDNESDAY , APRIL 11 , 1711 . Perferimus : -Immania monstra C. VIRG . En . iii . 583 . Things the most out of nature we endure . I SHALL not put myself to any further pains ...
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... writers , or from their compliance his tragedy , and therefore shines in the passionate with the vicious taste of ... writer laid down the whole contexture admirably succeeded in the tender and melting of his dialogue in plain English ...
... writers , or from their compliance his tragedy , and therefore shines in the passionate with the vicious taste of ... writer laid down the whole contexture admirably succeeded in the tender and melting of his dialogue in plain English ...
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... writing such a motley piece of mirth and sorrow . But the absurdity of these performances is so very visible , that I shall not insist upon it . Tax English writers of tragedy are possessed with sa notion , that when they represent a ...
... writing such a motley piece of mirth and sorrow . But the absurdity of these performances is so very visible , that I shall not insist upon it . Tax English writers of tragedy are possessed with sa notion , that when they represent a ...
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