Fugitive Pieces, on Various Subjects, Volume 1R. and J. Dodsley, 1761 - English essays |
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... scarce any of the Poets have caught any Ray in their Defcriptions ( or perhaps even in their Imagination , ) excep Homer and Virgil , among the Antients ; and our Shakespear , and Milton , among the Moderns . The Beauty of the mere ...
... scarce any of the Poets have caught any Ray in their Defcriptions ( or perhaps even in their Imagination , ) excep Homer and Virgil , among the Antients ; and our Shakespear , and Milton , among the Moderns . The Beauty of the mere ...
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... scarce know what it is ; every Judge of Beau- ty can point out Grace ; but no one that I know of has ever yet fixt upon a Definition for it . Grace often depends on fome very little Incidents in a fine Face ; and in Actions , it ...
... scarce know what it is ; every Judge of Beau- ty can point out Grace ; but no one that I know of has ever yet fixt upon a Definition for it . Grace often depends on fome very little Incidents in a fine Face ; and in Actions , it ...
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... scarce ever be tiresome ; and your Manner of treating it has , in general , been very pleafing ; only I must say , that , toward the Conclufion , it began to grow a little too like a Sermon . I with , fays TIMANTHES , that fome Ladies ...
... scarce ever be tiresome ; and your Manner of treating it has , in general , been very pleafing ; only I must say , that , toward the Conclufion , it began to grow a little too like a Sermon . I with , fays TIMANTHES , that fome Ladies ...
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... scarce diftinguifh the Emperor himfelf from the meaneft of his Subjects . Every body bauls out what he has to fell ; fome quarrel , others fight ; and you have all the Confufion of a Fair about you . The public Officers come and arreft ...
... scarce diftinguifh the Emperor himfelf from the meaneft of his Subjects . Every body bauls out what he has to fell ; fome quarrel , others fight ; and you have all the Confufion of a Fair about you . The public Officers come and arreft ...
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... scarce ever seen by any body but himself , his Women , and his Eunuchs . The Princes , and other chief Men of the Country , are rarely ad- mitted any further than the Audience - Chambers . Of all the Europeans that are here , none ever ...
... scarce ever seen by any body but himself , his Women , and his Eunuchs . The Princes , and other chief Men of the Country , are rarely ad- mitted any further than the Audience - Chambers . Of all the Europeans that are here , none ever ...
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