New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volume 16Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth E. W. Allen, 1826 |
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... Observations on the Greek Drama . THE only plays that have come down to us are Athenian ; and Athens was the only Greek state where the Drama had at once a native growth and a fruitful diversity of branches . * Rousseau imagined , be ...
... Observations on the Greek Drama . THE only plays that have come down to us are Athenian ; and Athens was the only Greek state where the Drama had at once a native growth and a fruitful diversity of branches . * Rousseau imagined , be ...
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... observed , Set in a note - book , learned and conned by rote , To cast into his teeth . However , if any one be curious in this particular , let him read a file of the Times newspaper for the last ten years , and he will have a tolera ...
... observed , Set in a note - book , learned and conned by rote , To cast into his teeth . However , if any one be curious in this particular , let him read a file of the Times newspaper for the last ten years , and he will have a tolera ...
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... observation had been as true as it is old , would not have failed by this time to discover it . They have pretty sharp dis- tinctions of the fluctuating and the permanent . Lightly come , lightly go , " is a proverb , which they can ...
... observation had been as true as it is old , would not have failed by this time to discover it . They have pretty sharp dis- tinctions of the fluctuating and the permanent . Lightly come , lightly go , " is a proverb , which they can ...
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... observations , that money is not health ; riches cannot purchase every thing : the meta- phor that makes gold to be mere muck , with the morality which traces fine clothing to the sheep's back , and denounces pearl as the un- handsome ...
... observations , that money is not health ; riches cannot purchase every thing : the meta- phor that makes gold to be mere muck , with the morality which traces fine clothing to the sheep's back , and denounces pearl as the un- handsome ...
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... observed that a superfœtation in this sort of wit is dangerous . When a man has said a good thing , it is seldom politic to follow it up . We do not care to be cheated a second time ; or , perhaps , the mind of man ( with reverence be ...
... observed that a superfœtation in this sort of wit is dangerous . When a man has said a good thing , it is seldom politic to follow it up . We do not care to be cheated a second time ; or , perhaps , the mind of man ( with reverence be ...
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