Essays, Biographical, Critical and Historical, Volume 1J. Sharpe, 1805 - English literature |
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... stage of society , when refinement and general knowledge had made a very partial progress , that our earliest periodical papers were written ; when the chief difficulty was to induce the gay , the thoughtless , and the busy , to read ...
... stage of society , when refinement and general knowledge had made a very partial progress , that our earliest periodical papers were written ; when the chief difficulty was to induce the gay , the thoughtless , and the busy , to read ...
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... stage of society have been alike amused and bene- fited by these productions . Courtesy , etiquette , and dress , as well as morals , criticism , and philoso- phy , have learnt to obey their dictates , and many important truths , many ...
... stage of society have been alike amused and bene- fited by these productions . Courtesy , etiquette , and dress , as well as morals , criticism , and philoso- phy , have learnt to obey their dictates , and many important truths , many ...
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... Stage , " were of essential service , at that dissolute period , to the cause of virtue and decorum . Their deficiencies in composition , however , their anti- thesis , affectation , and quaintness , and their total want of good taste ...
... Stage , " were of essential service , at that dissolute period , to the cause of virtue and decorum . Their deficiencies in composition , however , their anti- thesis , affectation , and quaintness , and their total want of good taste ...
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... templated and admired upon the stage ; whilst to be known to have devoted any leisure to the du- ties of devotion , to the study of the classics , or the acquisition of science , would have ruined him for 34 GENERAL OBSERVATIONS.
... templated and admired upon the stage ; whilst to be known to have devoted any leisure to the du- ties of devotion , to the study of the classics , or the acquisition of science , would have ruined him for 34 GENERAL OBSERVATIONS.
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Nathan Drake. cessful Comedy . His motive for bringing it on the stage is somewhat curious ; it was , he says , for the purpose of enlivening his character , and repelling the sarcasms of those who abused him for his declarations ...
Nathan Drake. cessful Comedy . His motive for bringing it on the stage is somewhat curious ; it was , he says , for the purpose of enlivening his character , and repelling the sarcasms of those who abused him for his declarations ...
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