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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... period . He also noted other faults in the tragedies of our chief authors in that age , Lee , Otway , and particularly the extravagancies of Dryden in his he- roic plays . As a contrast to these , he quoted the Samson Agonistes of ...
... period . He also noted other faults in the tragedies of our chief authors in that age , Lee , Otway , and particularly the extravagancies of Dryden in his he- roic plays . As a contrast to these , he quoted the Samson Agonistes of ...
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... period . He then noticed the crror of our poets , in taking the subjects of their co- medies from antient times and foreign countries ; and observed that they who sometimes did so , and sometimes took domestic stories ( as Massinger ...
... period . He then noticed the crror of our poets , in taking the subjects of their co- medies from antient times and foreign countries ; and observed that they who sometimes did so , and sometimes took domestic stories ( as Massinger ...
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... 18 , 1795 , a large stone , weighing 56 pounds , foll near Captain Topham's house , in Yorkshire , which is now in Mr. Sowerby's museum , Lambeth . Since this period many similar pheno- mena have occurred , 56 Royal Institution .
... 18 , 1795 , a large stone , weighing 56 pounds , foll near Captain Topham's house , in Yorkshire , which is now in Mr. Sowerby's museum , Lambeth . Since this period many similar pheno- mena have occurred , 56 Royal Institution .
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... period many similar pheno- mena have occurred , particularly at Be- nares , in India ; at l'Aigle , in France ; and near Glasgow , in Scotland ; and Mr. Howard , and the Count de Bournon , have proved by a very accurate chemical and ...
... period many similar pheno- mena have occurred , particularly at Be- nares , in India ; at l'Aigle , in France ; and near Glasgow , in Scotland ; and Mr. Howard , and the Count de Bournon , have proved by a very accurate chemical and ...
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... period when the im- pulse of the passions could not as yet be pleaded , in excuse for misconduct . They have told me that the courage and gal- lantry of Macheath were subjects of ad- miration and imitation , from their ear- liest youth ...
... period when the im- pulse of the passions could not as yet be pleaded , in excuse for misconduct . They have told me that the courage and gal- lantry of Macheath were subjects of ad- miration and imitation , from their ear- liest youth ...
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