The Director: A Weekly Literary Journal: Containing I. Essays, on Subjects of Literature, the Fine Arts and Manners. II. Bibliographana. Account of Rare and Curious Books and of the Book Sales in this Country, from the Close of the Seventeenth Century. III. Royal Institution. Analyses of the Lectures Delivered Weekly. IV. British Gallery. Description of the Principal Pictures Exhibited ... V. 1-2: Jan. 24-July 4, 1807, Band 2Thomas Frognall Dibdin, Frognall Longman, Hurst, 1807 |
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... mean and degrading opinion of the polite arts , who consider them merely as subservient to amusement , or at most to that cultivation of mind which , Emollit mores , nec sinit esse feros . THE history of the world evinces that they have ...
... mean and degrading opinion of the polite arts , who consider them merely as subservient to amusement , or at most to that cultivation of mind which , Emollit mores , nec sinit esse feros . THE history of the world evinces that they have ...
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... means of support : and that if the se- vere and precise logician call all this su- perfluous , or an excrescence of refine- ment , he should be told that that can- not be superfluous which relieves the wants of humanity ...
... means of support : and that if the se- vere and precise logician call all this su- perfluous , or an excrescence of refine- ment , he should be told that that can- not be superfluous which relieves the wants of humanity ...
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... of the difference between farce and comedy , and instanced in the pieces of Foote . He gave a character of that writer , and spoke of the reprehensible means which he sometimes took to give a stronger resemblance 94 Royal Institution .
... of the difference between farce and comedy , and instanced in the pieces of Foote . He gave a character of that writer , and spoke of the reprehensible means which he sometimes took to give a stronger resemblance 94 Royal Institution .
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... means which he sometimes took to give a stronger resemblance of the persons whom he brought on the scene . In this , the lecturer observed , that Foote was not singular ; for Moliere had recourse to similar practices . THE remaining ...
... means which he sometimes took to give a stronger resemblance of the persons whom he brought on the scene . In this , the lecturer observed , that Foote was not singular ; for Moliere had recourse to similar practices . THE remaining ...
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... ) that our children now begin to approach a state of maturity . HENRY is not only past twenty - three , but has the prospect of a union with a young lady of no mean connexions and fortune . It is fit that , in A Walk in London . 103.
... ) that our children now begin to approach a state of maturity . HENRY is not only past twenty - three , but has the prospect of a union with a young lady of no mean connexions and fortune . It is fit that , in A Walk in London . 103.
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