The Monthly Visitor, and Entertaining Pocket Companion, Volume 8H.D. Symonds, 1799 |
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Page 8
... appear when fummoned ; and the cere- mony commences with dancing and finging , which conti nues till midnight , when MUMBO feizes on the offender , The unfortunate victim being ftripped naked , is tied to a post and severely fcourged ...
... appear when fummoned ; and the cere- mony commences with dancing and finging , which conti nues till midnight , when MUMBO feizes on the offender , The unfortunate victim being ftripped naked , is tied to a post and severely fcourged ...
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... appears to me admirable , and though the fourth book has obfcurities , I prefer it to the three others . It has defcriptions not to be furpaffed by any poet that ever exifted , and which , furely , a writer merely ingenious , will never ...
... appears to me admirable , and though the fourth book has obfcurities , I prefer it to the three others . It has defcriptions not to be furpaffed by any poet that ever exifted , and which , furely , a writer merely ingenious , will never ...
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... appears , to the best judges , to be the more difficult to obtain , and more defirable than that highly ornamented diction to which writers of inferior tafte afpire . Gibbon tells us with great candour , that his friend Hume advised him ...
... appears , to the best judges , to be the more difficult to obtain , and more defirable than that highly ornamented diction to which writers of inferior tafte afpire . Gibbon tells us with great candour , that his friend Hume advised him ...
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... appear : Its humble method nothing has of fierce , But hates the ratt'ling of a lofty - verse ; With native beauty pleafes and excites , And never with harfh founds the ear affrights ! ANON . HE nature of paftoral poetry was explained ...
... appear : Its humble method nothing has of fierce , But hates the ratt'ling of a lofty - verse ; With native beauty pleafes and excites , And never with harfh founds the ear affrights ! ANON . HE nature of paftoral poetry was explained ...
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... appear moft worthy of attention . Your never having vifited this part of Britain , will induce me to enter into a detail which , otherwife , might have been deemed unneceffary . Travelling , during the fummer feafon , has lately become ...
... appear moft worthy of attention . Your never having vifited this part of Britain , will induce me to enter into a detail which , otherwife , might have been deemed unneceffary . Travelling , during the fummer feafon , has lately become ...
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