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For the rejection of this play it is difficult now to find the reason : it certainly has, in
a very great degree, the power of fixing attention and exciting merriment. From
the charge of disaffection he exculpates himself in his preface, by observing how
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For the rejection of this play it is difficult now to find the reason : it certainly has, in
a very great degree, the power of fixing attention and exciting merriment. From
the charge of disaffection he exculpates himself in his preface, by observing how
...
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Being driven from all publick stations, he is yet too great not to be traced by
curiosity to his retire * It is scarcely necessary to inform the reader that this
relation of Voltaire's was perfectly true, as far as relates to the existence of the
play which he ...
Being driven from all publick stations, he is yet too great not to be traced by
curiosity to his retire * It is scarcely necessary to inform the reader that this
relation of Voltaire's was perfectly true, as far as relates to the existence of the
play which he ...
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... the residence of some fair inhabitant ; thus he pursues rural gaiety through a
day of labour or of play, and delights himself at night with the fanciful narratives of
superstitious ignorance. The pensive man, at one time, walks unseen to muse at
...
... the residence of some fair inhabitant ; thus he pursues rural gaiety through a
day of labour or of play, and delights himself at night with the fanciful narratives of
superstitious ignorance. The pensive man, at one time, walks unseen to muse at
...
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His play on words, in which he delights too often ; his equivocations, which
Bentley endeavours to defend by the example of the ancients ; his unnecessary
and ungraceful use of terms of art ; it is not necessary to mention, because they
are ...
His play on words, in which he delights too often ; his equivocations, which
Bentley endeavours to defend by the example of the ancients ; his unnecessary
and ungraceful use of terms of art ; it is not necessary to mention, because they
are ...
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... of chance ; and he that reads Gataker upon Lots may see how much learning
and reason one of the first scholars of his age thought necessary to prove that it
was no crime to throw a die, or play at cards, or to hide a shilling for the reckoning
.
... of chance ; and he that reads Gataker upon Lots may see how much learning
and reason one of the first scholars of his age thought necessary to prove that it
was no crime to throw a die, or play at cards, or to hide a shilling for the reckoning
.
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| Título | The works of Samuel Johnson, Volumen 6 The Works of Samuel Johnson, Samuel Johnson |
| Autores | Samuel Johnson, Alexander Chalmers, Arthur Murphy |
| Editor | F.C. and J. Rivington, 1823 |
| Procedencia del original | University of Minnesota |
| Digitalizado | 29 Ene 2010 |
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