The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.Hastings, Etheridge, and Bliss, 1809 |
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... modern plays that would keep the audience alive , must be conceived in this manner , and indeed , many a modern play is made up on no other plan . This is the merit that lifts up the heart , like opium , into a rapture of insensibility ...
... modern plays that would keep the audience alive , must be conceived in this manner , and indeed , many a modern play is made up on no other plan . This is the merit that lifts up the heart , like opium , into a rapture of insensibility ...
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... modern philosopher of China * . " He who has begun his for- " tune by study will certainly confirm it by perseve- " rance . The love of books damps the passion for " pleasure , and when this passion is once extinguish- " ed , life is ...
... modern philosopher of China * . " He who has begun his for- " tune by study will certainly confirm it by perseve- " rance . The love of books damps the passion for " pleasure , and when this passion is once extinguish- " ed , life is ...
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... modern , I fancy you would think me employed in collecting materials for an history of human wretchedness . Homer is the first poet and beggar of note among the ancients ; he was blind , and sung his ballads about the streets ; but it ...
... modern , I fancy you would think me employed in collecting materials for an history of human wretchedness . Homer is the first poet and beggar of note among the ancients ; he was blind , and sung his ballads about the streets ; but it ...
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... modern ap- plauded performances of this kind , must , in order to be pleased , first leave his good sense behind him , take for his recompense and guide bloated and compound epithet , and dwell on paintings , just indeed , because ...
... modern ap- plauded performances of this kind , must , in order to be pleased , first leave his good sense behind him , take for his recompense and guide bloated and compound epithet , and dwell on paintings , just indeed , because ...
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... modern epitaphs in par- ticular ; one of which praised the deceased for being ortus ex antiqua stirpe ; the other commended the dead , because hanc adem suis sumptibus reædificavit : the greatest merit of one consisted in his being de ...
... modern epitaphs in par- ticular ; one of which praised the deceased for being ortus ex antiqua stirpe ; the other commended the dead , because hanc adem suis sumptibus reædificavit : the greatest merit of one consisted in his being de ...
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