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... learned Civilian and critic , Gravina , the patron and parent ( by adoption ) of Metastasio , are slightly mentioned . The chief accusation against Gravina is that he is too Grecian in the fable and conduct of his dramas . Though they ...
... learned Civilian and critic , Gravina , the patron and parent ( by adoption ) of Metastasio , are slightly mentioned . The chief accusation against Gravina is that he is too Grecian in the fable and conduct of his dramas . Though they ...
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We now come to the learned and justly celebrated Marquis Maffei ; whose tragedy of Merope is not only the chief glory of Melpomene in Italy , but has served as a model for excellent dramas in almost every other country in Europe . We ...
We now come to the learned and justly celebrated Marquis Maffei ; whose tragedy of Merope is not only the chief glory of Melpomene in Italy , but has served as a model for excellent dramas in almost every other country in Europe . We ...
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... learned , he is said to be amiable and frigid , there seems a clash of epithets . The author somewhat too frequently , perhaps , tells his readers that the letters and books which he quotes , or mentions , are lying before him ; which ...
... learned , he is said to be amiable and frigid , there seems a clash of epithets . The author somewhat too frequently , perhaps , tells his readers that the letters and books which he quotes , or mentions , are lying before him ; which ...
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... learned and elaborate account of the Telegraph : -but , before the author requests our attention to the scientific part of his plan , he produces much pleasant matter . He observes : But a still more compendious method of communication ...
... learned and elaborate account of the Telegraph : -but , before the author requests our attention to the scientific part of his plan , he produces much pleasant matter . He observes : But a still more compendious method of communication ...
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... learned men of the ancients ; but every man who is called for happens to be busy , from Pythagoras " who has rashly run himself upon an employment of keeping asses from a field of beans , " to Archimedes , who is meditating the ...
... learned men of the ancients ; but every man who is called for happens to be busy , from Pythagoras " who has rashly run himself upon an employment of keeping asses from a field of beans , " to Archimedes , who is meditating the ...
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