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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... rerum sit humanarum- que conjuncta . QUINTILIANUS . IN TWO VOLUMES . VOL . I. PRINTED BY J. SEELEY , BUCKINGHAM , FOR W. SUTTABY , STATIONERS COURT , LONDON . 1809 . CONTENTS . VOL . I. PART I. ESSAY 1. Observations. 18-986.
... rerum sit humanarum- que conjuncta . QUINTILIANUS . IN TWO VOLUMES . VOL . I. PRINTED BY J. SEELEY , BUCKINGHAM , FOR W. SUTTABY , STATIONERS COURT , LONDON . 1809 . CONTENTS . VOL . I. PART I. ESSAY 1. Observations. 18-986.
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... printing . " The allusion in the last line of this quotation is to the motto of the Tatler , N ° 108 . Steele is supposed to have ridiculed Mr. Baker under the character of Nick Doubt , in N ° 91 of the Tatler . 5. THE TORY TATLER . Of ...
... printing . " The allusion in the last line of this quotation is to the motto of the Tatler , N ° 108 . Steele is supposed to have ridiculed Mr. Baker under the character of Nick Doubt , in N ° 91 of the Tatler . 5. THE TORY TATLER . Of ...
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... Printed in small 4to ; and , as the title - page expresses Vol . 1 , we may presume that a continuation was intended ; but , probably , the want of sale gave a broad hint to the Editor , which he had just wit enough to take . August ...
... Printed in small 4to ; and , as the title - page expresses Vol . 1 , we may presume that a continuation was intended ; but , probably , the want of sale gave a broad hint to the Editor , which he had just wit enough to take . August ...
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... printed many more had not the death of the Queen arrested the progress of his pen . The Examiner existed during the four last years of Queen Anne , the first number being dated August 3d , 1710 , and the last July 26th , 1714. It had ...
... printed many more had not the death of the Queen arrested the progress of his pen . The Examiner existed during the four last years of Queen Anne , the first number being dated August 3d , 1710 , and the last July 26th , 1714. It had ...
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... for a defence of that chieftain , which he subsequently printed , was sentenced by Jefferies to be whipped through several towns in the west . The sentence was carried into execution with so much severity , that the 14 ENUMERATION OF.
... for a defence of that chieftain , which he subsequently printed , was sentenced by Jefferies to be whipped through several towns in the west . The sentence was carried into execution with so much severity , that the 14 ENUMERATION OF.
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