The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature, Volume 50Tobias Smollett W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 1780 - English literature Each number includes a classified "Monthly catalogue." |
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... character alone could deferve fuch a poet to delineate it . The reft of the Epiftle is at leaft equal , perhaps fuperior in many parts , to the fpecimen already given , and the conclufion , which we fhall here fubjoin , is excellent ...
... character alone could deferve fuch a poet to delineate it . The reft of the Epiftle is at leaft equal , perhaps fuperior in many parts , to the fpecimen already given , and the conclufion , which we fhall here fubjoin , is excellent ...
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... characters of feveral ancient hiftorians ; Hero- dotus , Thucydides , Xenophon , Polybius , Salluft , Livy , and Ta- citus ; makes a digreflion to biography , which leads him to confider the merit of Plutarch , Marcellinus , and Anna ...
... characters of feveral ancient hiftorians ; Hero- dotus , Thucydides , Xenophon , Polybius , Salluft , Livy , and Ta- citus ; makes a digreflion to biography , which leads him to confider the merit of Plutarch , Marcellinus , and Anna ...
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... character of the celebrated Voltaire . ' On the wide fea of letters ' twas thy boaft To croud each fail , and touch at every coaft : From that rich deep how often haft thou brought The pure and precious pearls of fplendid thought ! How ...
... character of the celebrated Voltaire . ' On the wide fea of letters ' twas thy boaft To croud each fail , and touch at every coaft : From that rich deep how often haft thou brought The pure and precious pearls of fplendid thought ! How ...
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... character of Piozzi , and fovereign contempt for Pacchierotti . But of this art he feems to know no more than the fingers in the Beggar's Opera , Dibdin's farces , and Vauxhall ballads , have taught him . Indeed he endeavours to be ...
... character of Piozzi , and fovereign contempt for Pacchierotti . But of this art he feems to know no more than the fingers in the Beggar's Opera , Dibdin's farces , and Vauxhall ballads , have taught him . Indeed he endeavours to be ...
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... characters fcattered through our author's plays , which gave a poignancy to certain paffages , while the events were recent , and the perfons pointed at , yet living . In the fpeech now before us , I think it not improbable that he ...
... characters fcattered through our author's plays , which gave a poignancy to certain paffages , while the events were recent , and the perfons pointed at , yet living . In the fpeech now before us , I think it not improbable that he ...
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