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... absurd : considered as choruses , they are above all praise . If , for instance , we examine the address of Clytem- nestra to Agamemnon on his return , or the de- scription of the seven Argive chiefs , by the principles of dramatic ...
... absurd : considered as choruses , they are above all praise . If , for instance , we examine the address of Clytem- nestra to Agamemnon on his return , or the de- scription of the seven Argive chiefs , by the principles of dramatic ...
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... absurd dust , the falling bricks , the comfortless rooms , than the imputations which , for the last hun the frightful irregularity of the whole appear - dred and sixty years , it has been the fashion to ance ; and then ask in scorn ...
... absurd dust , the falling bricks , the comfortless rooms , than the imputations which , for the last hun the frightful irregularity of the whole appear - dred and sixty years , it has been the fashion to ance ; and then ask in scorn ...
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... absurd , it is only necessary to apply the test which dissolved the enchanted Florimel - to place the true by the false Thalia , to contrast the most celebrated characters which have been drawn by the writers of whom we speak , with the ...
... absurd , it is only necessary to apply the test which dissolved the enchanted Florimel - to place the true by the false Thalia , to contrast the most celebrated characters which have been drawn by the writers of whom we speak , with the ...
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... absurd physics , and his more absurd customed to analyze what they feel ; they , metaphysics ; for every thing but that in which therefore , perpetually refer their emotions to causes which have not in the slightest degree tended to ...
... absurd physics , and his more absurd customed to analyze what they feel ; they , metaphysics ; for every thing but that in which therefore , perpetually refer their emotions to causes which have not in the slightest degree tended to ...
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... absurd restraints , un- able to please themselves in the choice of their wives , their suppers , or their company , com- pelled to assume a peculiar manner , and to talk in a peculiar style , gloried in their liberty . The aristocracy ...
... absurd restraints , un- able to please themselves in the choice of their wives , their suppers , or their company , com- pelled to assume a peculiar manner , and to talk in a peculiar style , gloried in their liberty . The aristocracy ...
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