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Page 227
... fatire , indeed , carries us far ; we can read with pleasure the smart far- cafms of Smollet against the light - hearted merriment of the French we can bear , without difguft , the ponderous invective of Johnson against the poverty and ...
... fatire , indeed , carries us far ; we can read with pleasure the smart far- cafms of Smollet against the light - hearted merriment of the French we can bear , without difguft , the ponderous invective of Johnson against the poverty and ...
Page 228
... fatire is juft . It is impoffible for criticifm fully to defcribe the rich vein of -Tony that runs through the whole of this entertaining per- formance , of which we shall endeavour to give our Readers fome idea , by tranflating a few ...
... fatire is juft . It is impoffible for criticifm fully to defcribe the rich vein of -Tony that runs through the whole of this entertaining per- formance , of which we shall endeavour to give our Readers fome idea , by tranflating a few ...
Page 235
... fatire ? The Address , Intro- duction , Preface , Advertisement , and Explanation , are unmeaning and nonfenfical imitations , as we fuppofe , of Sterne : there is , at leaft , the frivolity of that fantastic and original writer ...
... fatire ? The Address , Intro- duction , Preface , Advertisement , and Explanation , are unmeaning and nonfenfical imitations , as we fuppofe , of Sterne : there is , at leaft , the frivolity of that fantastic and original writer ...
Page 359
... fatires of Thirty eight ; of which Dodley told me , that they were brought to him by the author , that they might be fairly copied . " Every line , " faid he , was then written twice over ; I gave him a clean tranfcript , which he fent ...
... fatires of Thirty eight ; of which Dodley told me , that they were brought to him by the author , that they might be fairly copied . " Every line , " faid he , was then written twice over ; I gave him a clean tranfcript , which he fent ...
Page 446
... fatire on Mr. Pope , Mr. Kent the architect , and the Earl of Burlington . But Mr. Hogarth being as apprehensive that the pen of the poet was as pointed as the graver of the artift , re- called the impreffions , and deftroyed the plate ...
... fatire on Mr. Pope , Mr. Kent the architect , and the Earl of Burlington . But Mr. Hogarth being as apprehensive that the pen of the poet was as pointed as the graver of the artift , re- called the impreffions , and deftroyed the plate ...
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