The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal, Volume 79R. Griffiths, 1788 - Books |
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... fome confolation that he was to receive the decencies of burial . This is a pleafing deception : it is natural and pathetic . But the real catastrophe recurs . And this circumstance again opens a new vein of imagination . Our Author has ...
... fome confolation that he was to receive the decencies of burial . This is a pleafing deception : it is natural and pathetic . But the real catastrophe recurs . And this circumstance again opens a new vein of imagination . Our Author has ...
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... fome readers may wish for a fpecimen of thefe curious origi- nals , we fhall give them the following letter of John de Vere , Earl of Oxford , to his lady , after the unfuccefsful battle of Barnet , April 14 , 1471 , when he retreated ...
... fome readers may wish for a fpecimen of thefe curious origi- nals , we fhall give them the following letter of John de Vere , Earl of Oxford , to his lady , after the unfuccefsful battle of Barnet , April 14 , 1471 , when he retreated ...
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... fome unfortunate incident in his life , we , who are unacquainted with the private hiftory of this gentleman , cannot poffibly determine . Of this , however , we can with truth affure him , that we are not his enemies ; that we have no ...
... fome unfortunate incident in his life , we , who are unacquainted with the private hiftory of this gentleman , cannot poffibly determine . Of this , however , we can with truth affure him , that we are not his enemies ; that we have no ...
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... fome defects in his Sermons , not from any en- mity to the Author , but from a wifh that he may improve his theological compofitions . ART . XV . Rules for drawing Caricaturas ; with an Effay on Comic Painting . 8vo . 2s . fewed ...
... fome defects in his Sermons , not from any en- mity to the Author , but from a wifh that he may improve his theological compofitions . ART . XV . Rules for drawing Caricaturas ; with an Effay on Comic Painting . 8vo . 2s . fewed ...
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... fome few shillings by the week , For teaching his rich Vicar's children Greek , Was all he ever gain'd of hard - earn'd pelf , To feed two orphan fifters , and himself . ' Tis faid , indeed , he was fo very poor , That e'en the ftarving ...
... fome few shillings by the week , For teaching his rich Vicar's children Greek , Was all he ever gain'd of hard - earn'd pelf , To feed two orphan fifters , and himself . ' Tis faid , indeed , he was fo very poor , That e'en the ftarving ...
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