The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., Volume 2Luke Hansard, 1806 |
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... Plays Account of the Harleian Library page 3 - 31 - · Effay on the Origin and Importance of Fugitive Pieces Account of the Life of Benvenuto Cellini 69 124 133 · - 197 227 · 240 -` 250 254 View of the Controverfy between Croufaz and War ...
... Plays Account of the Harleian Library page 3 - 31 - · Effay on the Origin and Importance of Fugitive Pieces Account of the Life of Benvenuto Cellini 69 124 133 · - 197 227 · 240 -` 250 254 View of the Controverfy between Croufaz and War ...
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... play , has in all ages and countries been credited by the common people , and in most by the learned themselves . These phantoms have indeed appeared more frequently , in proportion as the darkness of ignorance has been more grofs ; but ...
... play , has in all ages and countries been credited by the common people , and in most by the learned themselves . These phantoms have indeed appeared more frequently , in proportion as the darkness of ignorance has been more grofs ; but ...
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... play , especially fince he has followed with great exactnefs fuch hiftories as were then thought true ; nor can it be doubted that the fcenes of enchantment , however they may now be ridiculed , were both by himfelf and his audience ...
... play , especially fince he has followed with great exactnefs fuch hiftories as were then thought true ; nor can it be doubted that the fcenes of enchantment , however they may now be ridiculed , were both by himfelf and his audience ...
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... play he terms the general dissolution of nature the crack of doom . There are among Mr. Theobald's alterations others which I do not approve , though I do not always cenfure them ; for fome of his amendments are fo excellent , that ...
... play he terms the general dissolution of nature the crack of doom . There are among Mr. Theobald's alterations others which I do not approve , though I do not always cenfure them ; for fome of his amendments are fo excellent , that ...
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... play , Their malady convinces The great affay of art , NOTE XIX . -WHO fhall bear the guilt Of our great quell . Quell is murder , manquellers being in the old lan- guage the term for which murderers is now ued . NOTE XX . ACT II ...
... play , Their malady convinces The great affay of art , NOTE XIX . -WHO fhall bear the guilt Of our great quell . Quell is murder , manquellers being in the old lan- guage the term for which murderers is now ued . NOTE XX . ACT II ...
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