Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical: Illustrative of the Rambler, Adventurer, & Idler, and of the Various Periodical Papers Which, in Imitation of the Writings of Steele and Addison, Have Been Published Between the Close of the Eighth Volume of the Spectator, and the Commencement of the Year 1809, Volume 1 |
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... powers and pro- ductions as a POET , a BIBLIOGRA- PHER , a BIOGRAPHER , an ESSAYIST , a PHILOLOGER , a NOVELLIST , a COM- MENTATOR , a POLITICIAN , a TOUR- IST , a CRITIC , an EPISTOLARY WRI- TER , and a THEOLOGIAN , are dwelt upon at ...
... powers and pro- ductions as a POET , a BIBLIOGRA- PHER , a BIOGRAPHER , an ESSAYIST , a PHILOLOGER , a NOVELLIST , a COM- MENTATOR , a POLITICIAN , a TOUR- IST , a CRITIC , an EPISTOLARY WRI- TER , and a THEOLOGIAN , are dwelt upon at ...
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... power , that they thought it necessary to establish a periodical paper under the title of the Examiner , as a defence of their principles and views . The authors of this once celebrated Paper were , for the most part , persons of ...
... power , that they thought it necessary to establish a periodical paper under the title of the Examiner , as a defence of their principles and views . The authors of this once celebrated Paper were , for the most part , persons of ...
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... power and tory politics ; his " Convocation , " a poem in five can- tos , was written in defence of Bishop Hoadley ; and he conducted " The Craftsman , " with un- common popularity and success , in opposition to the measures of Sir ...
... power and tory politics ; his " Convocation , " a poem in five can- tos , was written in defence of Bishop Hoadley ; and he conducted " The Craftsman , " with un- common popularity and success , in opposition to the measures of Sir ...
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... power through the medium of his exertions . The Terra Filius is a sharp and too frequently a virulent satire on the statutes , the manners , and the politics of the University of Oxford : many faults and glaring inconsistencies are ...
... power through the medium of his exertions . The Terra Filius is a sharp and too frequently a virulent satire on the statutes , the manners , and the politics of the University of Oxford : many faults and glaring inconsistencies are ...
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... powers of light and darkness . They wrote by turns each six essays ; and the character of the work was observed regularly to rise in Mr. Hill's weeks , and fall in Mr. Bond's . " Life of Sa vage . Note . ! instruction may be derived ...
... powers of light and darkness . They wrote by turns each six essays ; and the character of the work was observed regularly to rise in Mr. Hill's weeks , and fall in Mr. Bond's . " Life of Sa vage . Note . ! instruction may be derived ...
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