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Page 41
... pleased with nothing in a poet which has not life and man- ners ascribed to it ; but for my own part , I am pleased most with those passages in this description which carry in them a greater measure of probabi lity , and are such as ...
... pleased with nothing in a poet which has not life and man- ners ascribed to it ; but for my own part , I am pleased most with those passages in this description which carry in them a greater measure of probabi lity , and are such as ...
Page 187
... pleased with one an- other , and partake of the same common entertain- ment . I could not but fancy to myself , as the old man stood up in the middle of the pit , that he made a very proper centre to a tragic audience . Upon the ...
... pleased with one an- other , and partake of the same common entertain- ment . I could not but fancy to myself , as the old man stood up in the middle of the pit , that he made a very proper centre to a tragic audience . Upon the ...
Page 513
... pleased to prescribe some rules for our future reciprocal behaviour . It will be worthy the particularity of your genius to lay down rules for his conduct , who was , as it were , born an old man ; in which you will much oblige , " SIR ...
... pleased to prescribe some rules for our future reciprocal behaviour . It will be worthy the particularity of your genius to lay down rules for his conduct , who was , as it were , born an old man ; in which you will much oblige , " SIR ...
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