Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical: Illustrative of the Rambler, Adventurer, & Idler, and of the Various Periodical Papers Which, in Imitation of the Writings of Steele and Addison, Have Been Published Between the Close of the Eighth Volume of the Spectator, and the Commencement of the Year 1809, Volumen1J. Seeley, 1809 - 499 páginas |
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... equally to be wished for and expected . Such , however , was the literary excellence of which the Spectator had to boast , that many years elapsed before a Paper was VOL . IV . B produced whose merits afforded any very just title to the.
... equally to be wished for and expected . Such , however , was the literary excellence of which the Spectator had to boast , that many years elapsed before a Paper was VOL . IV . B produced whose merits afforded any very just title to the.
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... merits afforded any very just title to the claim of rivalship . In the interim , it pro- perly becomes a part of our province not wholly to overlook the crowd of publications which , under the appellation of periodical , issued in ...
... merits afforded any very just title to the claim of rivalship . In the interim , it pro- perly becomes a part of our province not wholly to overlook the crowd of publications which , under the appellation of periodical , issued in ...
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... merit the best portion of the work . The management of this scurrilous undertaking was then entrusted to Mr. Oldis- worth , who completed the fifth volume , pub- lished nineteen numbers of a sixth , and would probably have printed many ...
... merit the best portion of the work . The management of this scurrilous undertaking was then entrusted to Mr. Oldis- worth , who completed the fifth volume , pub- lished nineteen numbers of a sixth , and would probably have printed many ...
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... merit , they were by no means proper subjects for the ridicule and abuse with which they were indiscriminately overwhelmed . He ac- quired , however , no inconsiderable share of fame by his first epic production , entitled Prince Arthur ...
... merit , they were by no means proper subjects for the ridicule and abuse with which they were indiscriminately overwhelmed . He ac- quired , however , no inconsiderable share of fame by his first epic production , entitled Prince Arthur ...
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... merit , and , in imitation of the Spectator , has adopted a dramatic plan , for the purpose of binding the parts into a whole ; an advantage of which , un- fortunately , few periodical papers have since availed themselves . That ...
... merit , and , in imitation of the Spectator , has adopted a dramatic plan , for the purpose of binding the parts into a whole ; an advantage of which , un- fortunately , few periodical papers have since availed themselves . That ...
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