The Director [ed. by T.F. Dibdin]., Volume 2Thomas Frognall Dibdin 1807 |
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... mean and degrading opinion of the polite arts , who consider them merely as subservient to amusement , or at most to that cultivation of mind which , Emollit mores , nec sinit esse feros . THE history of the world evinces that they have ...
... mean and degrading opinion of the polite arts , who consider them merely as subservient to amusement , or at most to that cultivation of mind which , Emollit mores , nec sinit esse feros . THE history of the world evinces that they have ...
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... means of support : and that if the se- vere and precise logician call all this su- perfluous , or an excrescence of refine- ment , he should be told that that can- not be superfluous which relieves the wants of humanity ...
... means of support : and that if the se- vere and precise logician call all this su- perfluous , or an excrescence of refine- ment , he should be told that that can- not be superfluous which relieves the wants of humanity ...
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... of the difference between farce and comedy , and instanced in the pieces of Foote . He gave a character of that writer , and spoke of the reprehensible means which he sometimes took to give a stronger resemblance 94 Royal Institution .
... of the difference between farce and comedy , and instanced in the pieces of Foote . He gave a character of that writer , and spoke of the reprehensible means which he sometimes took to give a stronger resemblance 94 Royal Institution .
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Thomas Frognall Dibdin. means which he sometimes took to give a stronger resemblance of the persons whom he brought on the scene . In this , the lecturer observed , that Foote was not singular ; for Moliere had recourse to similar ...
Thomas Frognall Dibdin. means which he sometimes took to give a stronger resemblance of the persons whom he brought on the scene . In this , the lecturer observed , that Foote was not singular ; for Moliere had recourse to similar ...
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... ) that our children now begin to approach a state of maturity . HENRY is not only past twenty - three , but has the prospect of a union with a young lady of no mean connexions and fortune . It is fit that , in A Walk in London . 103.
... ) that our children now begin to approach a state of maturity . HENRY is not only past twenty - three , but has the prospect of a union with a young lady of no mean connexions and fortune . It is fit that , in A Walk in London . 103.
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