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Page 9
... reader's pleasure , in speaking of all the delights of this most favoured country , for such it evidently is ; but I may remark , that it is most singular , that though it is near Africa , if forty leagues can be called near that ...
... reader's pleasure , in speaking of all the delights of this most favoured country , for such it evidently is ; but I may remark , that it is most singular , that though it is near Africa , if forty leagues can be called near that ...
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... readers , and place your work as far beyond all hopes of rivalry , by other Monthly Writers , in satirical point , as it is in elegance of wit , and originality of humour . " No admirer of the ancients , no lover of light humour and ...
... readers , and place your work as far beyond all hopes of rivalry , by other Monthly Writers , in satirical point , as it is in elegance of wit , and originality of humour . " No admirer of the ancients , no lover of light humour and ...
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... readers , and that being the case , we may safely and ho- nestly promise such folks an abundance of entertainment , from this large collection of important trifles concerning the mimic race , who are in general treated like walnuts ...
... readers , and that being the case , we may safely and ho- nestly promise such folks an abundance of entertainment , from this large collection of important trifles concerning the mimic race , who are in general treated like walnuts ...
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... readers will take the trouble of comparing the well known description of the Apothecary in SHAKESPEAR , with the following from OTWAY , which I have here set down for illustration , they will be found to be similar , almost without the ...
... readers will take the trouble of comparing the well known description of the Apothecary in SHAKESPEAR , with the following from OTWAY , which I have here set down for illustration , they will be found to be similar , almost without the ...
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... readers can afford me information upon the subject . It appears to me strange , that an author , whose character stands so high for invention and description , should have pillaged so liberally ( or , without a pun , illiberally ) from ...
... readers can afford me information upon the subject . It appears to me strange , that an author , whose character stands so high for invention and description , should have pillaged so liberally ( or , without a pun , illiberally ) from ...
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