 | 1744 - 348 pages
...Their Authors are of the fame Level, fit to reprefent them on a Mountebank's Stage, or to be Mailers of the Ceremonies in a Bear-garden: Yet thefe are...Senfe, (as they may by reading better Books, and by Conversation with Men of Judgment) they foon forfake them. I muft not difmifs this Subjeft without... | |
 | Great Britain - 1778 - 378 pages
...privileged to poll. Their authors are of the fame level, fit to reprefent them on a mountebank's ftage, or to be matters of the ceremonies in a bear-garden...mortification, that as their readers improve their flock of fenfe, as they may by reading better books, and by converfatioh with men of judgment, they... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 424 pages
...Their authors are of the fame level ; fit to reprefent them on a mountebank's ft age, or to be mafters of the ceremonies in a bear-garden. Yet thefe are...mortification, that as their readers improve their ftock of fenfe (as they may by reading better books, and by converfation with men of judgment), they... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 412 pages
...Their authors are of the fame level; fit to reprefent them on a mountebank's ftage, or to be mafters of the ceremonies . in a bear-garden.. Yet thefe are they who have the 'molt admirers i But it often happens, to their mortification, that as their readers improve their... | |
 | 1786 - 694 pages
...rcprefenttheraon л mountebank's ftage, or to he п\зЛ\ек of xVe c«emomes in a bear-garden-, ^-et tVefc »rt they who have the moft admirers. But it often happens,...mortification, that as their readers improve their Ibck of fenfe, as they may by reading better books, and by eonverfation with men of judgment, they... | |
 | 1789 - 508 pages
...authors ' are of the fame level, fit to reprefent them on ' a mountebank's flage, or to be mailers of the ' ceremonies in a bear-garden : yet thefe are ' they who have the mofl admirers. But it often ' happens, to their mortification, that as their ' readers improve their... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 366 pages
...Their authors are of the fame level; fit to reprefent them on a mountebank's ftage, or to be mafters of the ceremonies in a bear-garden. Yet thefe are they who have the m»fl admirers. But it often happens, to their mortification, that as their readers improve their flock... | |
 | Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 1104 pages
...privileged to poll. Their authors are of the f;.;ne levjl ; fit to reprefcnt them on a montcbarJtS ftagc, or to be matters of the ceremonies in a bear-garden. Yet thefe are they who have the moil admirers. But it often happens, to their mortification, that as their readers improve their Hock... | |
 | Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 902 pages
...privileged tn poll. Their authors are of the fame level ; fit to rcprel'ent them on a montehank's ftagc, or to be matters of the ceremonies in a bear-garden. Yet thefe are they who have the molt admirers. But it often happens, to their mortification, that as th_'ir reader* improve their flock... | |
 | 1792 - 918 pages
...Their authors are of the fame level ; fit to reprefent them on a montebank's ftage, or to be mailers of the ceremonies in a bear-garden. Yet thefe are they who have the moll admirers. But it often happens, to their mortification, that as their readers improve their dock... | |
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... of two pounds per annum in Parnassus, and therefore are not privileged to poll*. Their authors are of the same level, fit to represent them on a mountebank's stage, or to be masters of the ceremonies in a bear-garden ; yet these are they who have... 
