The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature, Volume 57Tobias Smollett W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 1784 Each number includes a classified "Monthly catalogue." |
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Tobias Smollett. tween him and the lively Puck , a reformed fpirit , but once the minister of the witch Maud . It is an advantageous fpe- cimen of our author's descriptive powers . • Puck . What should ... lively Puck, a reformed fpirit...
Tobias Smollett. tween him and the lively Puck , a reformed fpirit , but once the minister of the witch Maud . It is an advantageous fpe- cimen of our author's descriptive powers . • Puck . What should ... lively Puck, a reformed fpirit...
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... lively and juft satire , if it had been managed with skill and temper . We are forry to obferve , that the prefent author is too angry to wield this weapon with fuccefs ; but we can find an ample apology for him , if he is but remotely ...
... lively and juft satire , if it had been managed with skill and temper . We are forry to obferve , that the prefent author is too angry to wield this weapon with fuccefs ; but we can find an ample apology for him , if he is but remotely ...
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... lively dialogue , and peculiar fituations : we applaud without examination ; and the fancy is amufed without an appeal to the reafon . We feldom meet with a new character , and the old ones are fcarcely diftinguished by a difcriminating ...
... lively dialogue , and peculiar fituations : we applaud without examination ; and the fancy is amufed without an appeal to the reafon . We feldom meet with a new character , and the old ones are fcarcely diftinguished by a difcriminating ...
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