A Letter to Mr. Mason: On the Marks of ImitationW. Thurlbourn & J. Woodyer, 1757 - 76 ページ |
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... conclude from it , That we can feldom pronounce with certainty of Imitations without fome external proof to affift us in the difcovery . You will under- ftand me to mean by these external proofs , the previ- ous knowledge we have , from ...
... conclude from it , That we can feldom pronounce with certainty of Imitations without fome external proof to affift us in the difcovery . You will under- ftand me to mean by these external proofs , the previ- ous knowledge we have , from ...
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... conclude that , in my opinion , every degree of likeness is ex- pofed to the fufpicion of imitation . To convert this fufpicion into a proof , it is not enough to say , that a writer might , but that his circumftances make it plain or ...
... conclude that , in my opinion , every degree of likeness is ex- pofed to the fufpicion of imitation . To convert this fufpicion into a proof , it is not enough to say , that a writer might , but that his circumftances make it plain or ...
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... conclude without hefitation , that the fentiment is taken . 2. The late Editor of Johnson's works obferves very well the impropriety of leaving a trait of Ita- lian manners in his Ev'ry man in his humour , when he fitted up that Play ...
... conclude without hefitation , that the fentiment is taken . 2. The late Editor of Johnson's works obferves very well the impropriety of leaving a trait of Ita- lian manners in his Ev'ry man in his humour , when he fitted up that Play ...
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... other hand , when a man of the world took it into his head , the other day , in a moping fit , to talk Sentences , every body concluded that this was not the the language of the writer or his fituation , but OF IMITATION . 27.
... other hand , when a man of the world took it into his head , the other day , in a moping fit , to talk Sentences , every body concluded that this was not the the language of the writer or his fituation , but OF IMITATION . 27.
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... is in the Poet given to fuperior Beings only . The confequence is , that the Ape is an object of derifion in the former cafe , of ad- miration , in the latter . C To To conclude this head , I will just observe to OF IMITATION . 33.
... is in the Poet given to fuperior Beings only . The confequence is , that the Ape is an object of derifion in the former cafe , of ad- miration , in the latter . C To To conclude this head , I will just observe to OF IMITATION . 33.
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