The British Essayists: The LoungerJ. Richardson, 1823 |
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Page iii
... remarks on the present 5. On the writing of history - Ancient hi- story compared with modern · 6. The author attends Col. Caustic to a play - Remarks of the colonel on the entertainment and the audience • 7. The regrets of him who has ...
... remarks on the present 5. On the writing of history - Ancient hi- story compared with modern · 6. The author attends Col. Caustic to a play - Remarks of the colonel on the entertainment and the audience • 7. The regrets of him who has ...
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... remarks on Mrs. Siddons's performance of the character of Calista . · 26. Insignificance and unhappiness of a cer- tain species of bachelor - lounger · D. Hume · Craig . Mackenzie 27. An examination of the moral effects of tragedy 28 ...
... remarks on Mrs. Siddons's performance of the character of Calista . · 26. Insignificance and unhappiness of a cer- tain species of bachelor - lounger · D. Hume · Craig . Mackenzie 27. An examination of the moral effects of tragedy 28 ...
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... remark . Exactly of this sort are the notes and memorandums I have sometimes been tempted to make : transcripts of what I have felt or thought , or little records of what I have heard or read , set down without any other arrangement ...
... remark . Exactly of this sort are the notes and memorandums I have sometimes been tempted to make : transcripts of what I have felt or thought , or little records of what I have heard or read , set down without any other arrangement ...
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... remarked for talents to which we have no proper claim , the reason may , I think , be drawn from the period of life at which it commonly takes its rise . Our real endowments were ours , or began to be attained , at an early age , when ...
... remarked for talents to which we have no proper claim , the reason may , I think , be drawn from the period of life at which it commonly takes its rise . Our real endowments were ours , or began to be attained , at an early age , when ...
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... ; and a little rude , and called it raillery : but ' twas false coinage , and never passed long . In- deed , I have generally remarked , that people did 4 . 21 THE LOUNGER . Danger of young ladies being intro- duced into a society and ...
... ; and a little rude , and called it raillery : but ' twas false coinage , and never passed long . In- deed , I have generally remarked , that people did 4 . 21 THE LOUNGER . Danger of young ladies being intro- duced into a society and ...
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