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... favours , till this matter comes to be finally adjusted , with regular propriety . Even at this early period , it cannot be much amifs , to acknowledge * acknowledge with thankfulness , that the work is under great ADVERTISEMENT .
... favours , till this matter comes to be finally adjusted , with regular propriety . Even at this early period , it cannot be much amifs , to acknowledge * acknowledge with thankfulness , that the work is under great ADVERTISEMENT .
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... favours of other contribu tors by particular fignatures , which the Editor , with permiffion of parties , or when it is under- flood that it would not give offence , will with pleasure embrace , or contrive a convenient way of ...
... favours of other contribu tors by particular fignatures , which the Editor , with permiffion of parties , or when it is under- flood that it would not give offence , will with pleasure embrace , or contrive a convenient way of ...
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... favour of his fon , an ex- traordinary and ingenious man , author of the " Reflections on " the rife and fall of ancient Republics , " & c . This fon was a wanderer from his early youth , and lived long in fingular ways , and a variety ...
... favour of his fon , an ex- traordinary and ingenious man , author of the " Reflections on " the rife and fall of ancient Republics , " & c . This fon was a wanderer from his early youth , and lived long in fingular ways , and a variety ...
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... favour , because you are never moved by it . This gives you a certain dignity peculiar to your present fituation , and makes the equity , even of a Lord High Chancellor , appear but a degree towards the magnanimity of a Peer of Great ...
... favour , because you are never moved by it . This gives you a certain dignity peculiar to your present fituation , and makes the equity , even of a Lord High Chancellor , appear but a degree towards the magnanimity of a Peer of Great ...
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... favour of Lord HALIFAX . To the laft mentioned dedication , and the note upon it , the reader is referred , for a more particular account of this amiable and refpectable , nobleman . See alfo Theobald's account of him , foon after his ...
... favour of Lord HALIFAX . To the laft mentioned dedication , and the note upon it , the reader is referred , for a more particular account of this amiable and refpectable , nobleman . See alfo Theobald's account of him , foon after his ...
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Side 398 - Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue : but if you mouth it, as many of our players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines.
Side 400 - Now this overdone or come tardy off, though it make the unskilful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve; the censure of the which one must in your allowance o'erweigh a whole theatre of others. O, there be players that I have seen play, and heard others praise, and that highly, not to speak it profanely, that neither having the accent of Christians nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man...
Side 399 - Herod. Pray you, avoid it. Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor. Suit the action to the word, the word to the action, with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature.
Side 400 - ... accent of Christians, nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted, and bellowed, that I have thought some of Nature's journeymen had made men, and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
Side 201 - Dawks hath all along been the rival of this great writer, and got himself a reputation from plagues and famines ; by which, in those days, he destroyed as great multitudes as he has lately done by the sword. In every dearth of news, Grand Cairo was sure to be unpeopled.
Side 411 - Furthermore, it drove out of England (for that season) the Italian Opera, which had carried all before it for ten years.
Side 5 - ... bosom. In a word, his attention to any thing but his passion was utterly gone. He has lost all the money he ever played for, and been confuted in every argument he has entered upon, since the moment he first saw her.
Side 151 - Poets, for my raillery upon his work ; though I aimed at no more in that examination, but to convince him, and all men of genius, of the folly of laying themselves out on such plans as are below their characters. I hope too it was done without...
Side 304 - ... the fatality (under which most men labour) of desiring to be what they are not, makes them go out of a method in which they might be received with applause, and would certainly excel, into one, wherein they will all their life have the air of strangers to what they aim at.
Side 168 - The little triumph he appeared in, when he got such a trifling stock of ready money, though he had ventured so great sums with indifference, increased my admiration. But Pacolet began to talk to me. "Mr. Isaac, this to you looks wonderful, but not at all to us higher beings: that...