The British Essayists: The SpectatorJ. Johnson, J. Nichols and Son, R. Baldwin, F. and C. Rivington, W. Otridge and Son, W. J. and J. Richardson, A. Strahan, J. Sewell, R. Faulder, G. and W. Nicol, T. Payne, G. and J. Robinson, W. Lowndes, G. Wilkie, J. Mathews, P. McQueen, Ogilvy and Son, J. Scatcherd, J. Walker, Vernor and Hood, R. Lea, Darton and Harvey, J. Nunn, Lackington and Company, D. Walker, Clarke and Son, G. Kearsley, C. Law, J. White, Longman and Rees, Cadell, Jun. and Davies, J. Barker, T. Kay, Wynne and Company, Pote and Company, Carpenter and Company, W. Miller, Murray and Highley, S. Bagster, T. Hurst, T. Boosey, R. Pheney, W. Baynes, J. Harding, R. H. Evans, J. Mawman; and W. Creech, Edinburgh, 1802 |
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... humour ever attempted , yet it carries every proof that such a case can admit of having been written with ease . Another instance of their mutual exchange of subjects appears in the proposal for an infirmary to cure ill - humour , by ...
... humour ever attempted , yet it carries every proof that such a case can admit of having been written with ease . Another instance of their mutual exchange of subjects appears in the proposal for an infirmary to cure ill - humour , by ...
Strana 161
... humour , what wild irregular fancies , what unnatural distortions of thought do we meet with ? If they speak nonsense , they believe they are talking humour ; and when they have drawn together a scheme of absurd , inconsistent ideas ...
... humour , what wild irregular fancies , what unnatural distortions of thought do we meet with ? If they speak nonsense , they believe they are talking humour ; and when they have drawn together a scheme of absurd , inconsistent ideas ...
Strana 162
... humour . It is indeed much easier to describe what is not humour , than what is ; and very difficult to define it otherwise than as Cowley has done wit , by negatives . Were I to give my own notions of it , I would deliver them after ...
... humour . It is indeed much easier to describe what is not humour , than what is ; and very difficult to define it otherwise than as Cowley has done wit , by negatives . Were I to give my own notions of it , I would deliver them after ...
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No HISTORICAL and Biographical Preface | ix |
1 | xiii |
Original Dedications | lxxv |
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