Poems and PlaysIntroduction and notes by Austin Dobson]--The traveller; or, A. prospect of society.--The deserted village.--Retaliation.--The haunch of venison.--Miscellaneous pieces.--The good-natur'd man.--She stoops to conquer; or, The mistakes of a night.--Scene from The grumbler.--Appendix. |
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... kind ; The modern scribbling kind , who write In wit , and sense , and nature's spite : Till reading , I forgot what day on , A chapter out of Tooke's Pantheon , I think I met with something there , To suit my purpose to a hair ; But ...
... kind ; The modern scribbling kind , who write In wit , and sense , and nature's spite : Till reading , I forgot what day on , A chapter out of Tooke's Pantheon , I think I met with something there , To suit my purpose to a hair ; But ...
Page 174
... kind , indeed . Lofty . I did love him , to be sure ; he had some amusing qualities ; no man was fitter to be toast - master to a club , or had a better head . Miss Rich . A better head ? Lofty . Ay , at a bottle . To be sure , he was ...
... kind , indeed . Lofty . I did love him , to be sure ; he had some amusing qualities ; no man was fitter to be toast - master to a club , or had a better head . Miss Rich . A better head ? Lofty . Ay , at a bottle . To be sure , he was ...
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... kind of mulish production , with all the defects of its opposite parents , and marked with sterility . If we are permitted to make Comedy weep , we have an equal right to make Tragedy laugh , and to set down in Blank Verse the Jests and ...
... kind of mulish production , with all the defects of its opposite parents , and marked with sterility . If we are permitted to make Comedy weep , we have an equal right to make Tragedy laugh , and to set down in Blank Verse the Jests and ...
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