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Pagina 41
... tion to place us in the state of them whose story is related , and by consequence their joys and griefs are not easily adopted , nor can the attention be often interested in any thing that befalls them . To the subject , thus originally ...
... tion to place us in the state of them whose story is related , and by consequence their joys and griefs are not easily adopted , nor can the attention be often interested in any thing that befalls them . To the subject , thus originally ...
Pagina 324
... tion , or exasperated revenge . He is therefore , with all his variety of excellence , not often pathetick ; and had so little sensibility of the power of effusions purely natural , that he did not esteem them in others . Simplicity ...
... tion , or exasperated revenge . He is therefore , with all his variety of excellence , not often pathetick ; and had so little sensibility of the power of effusions purely natural , that he did not esteem them in others . Simplicity ...
Pagina 432
... tion is easy and gay . There is doubtless some advantage in the shortness of the lines , which there is little tempta- tion to load with expletive epithets . The dialogue seems commonly better than the songs . The two comick characters ...
... tion is easy and gay . There is doubtless some advantage in the shortness of the lines , which there is little tempta- tion to load with expletive epithets . The dialogue seems commonly better than the songs . The two comick characters ...
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