The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal, Volume 51R. Griffiths, 1774 - Books |
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... of these academies , Where people toil and fweat for their undoing , I my own ruin for a quoit fhall tofs ; My running will be my difgrace and shame . VOL . LI . B We We cannot fay that this fatisfies us . The fourth.
... of these academies , Where people toil and fweat for their undoing , I my own ruin for a quoit fhall tofs ; My running will be my difgrace and shame . VOL . LI . B We We cannot fay that this fatisfies us . The fourth.
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... fhall my ftandard first be placed , the eagle . The Perfian abounds with more unaffected wit and nature than almost any other of the comedies of Plautus . It is inter- fperfed with fine fentiments , and the general purpose is truly ...
... fhall my ftandard first be placed , the eagle . The Perfian abounds with more unaffected wit and nature than almost any other of the comedies of Plautus . It is inter- fperfed with fine fentiments , and the general purpose is truly ...
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... fhall be , or whoe'er have been , Or who from this day forth fhall ever be , I , fingle I , furpafs them all - And am Without a peer , the greateft wretch alive . I'm ruin'd , totally undone - This day Has been to me the worst of days ...
... fhall be , or whoe'er have been , Or who from this day forth fhall ever be , I , fingle I , furpafs them all - And am Without a peer , the greateft wretch alive . I'm ruin'd , totally undone - This day Has been to me the worst of days ...
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... fhall direct the order and arrangement of the following difcourfe . ' - He concludes this very pleafing difquifition in a moral and ufeful manner . I fhall conclude thefe obfervations , by ex- plaining more particularly , how the ...
... fhall direct the order and arrangement of the following difcourfe . ' - He concludes this very pleafing difquifition in a moral and ufeful manner . I fhall conclude thefe obfervations , by ex- plaining more particularly , how the ...
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... fhall fo far coincide with the Author's defign as to allow them a place . STROPHE I. Tell me , ye gales , ye rifing gales , That lightly sweep along the azure plain , Whofe foft breath Alls the fwelling fails , And waft the proud bark ...
... fhall fo far coincide with the Author's defign as to allow them a place . STROPHE I. Tell me , ye gales , ye rifing gales , That lightly sweep along the azure plain , Whofe foft breath Alls the fwelling fails , And waft the proud bark ...
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