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Observations on our principal dramatic authors. The school for husbands, a ... - Page lix
by James Mason - 1809
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The Annual Register, Volume 22

History - 1796 - 690 pages
...to happinefs of language. If by a more noble and more adequate conception that be confidered as wit, which is at once natural and new, that which, though not obvious, is, upon it* firft production, acknowledged to be juft ; if it be that, which he that never found it, wonders...
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Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets, Volume 1

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 358 pages
...to» happinefs of language. If by a more noble and more adequate conception that be confidered as Wit, which is at once natural and new, that which, though not obvious, is* upon its firft production, acknowledged to be juft; if it be that, which he that never found it, wonders how...
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Annual Register, Volume 22

Edmund Burke - History - 1780 - 726 pages
...to happinefs of language. If by a more noble and more adequate conception that be confidered as wit, which is at once natural and new, that which, though not obvious, is, upon its firft production, acknowledged to be juft; if it be that, which he that never found it, wonders how...
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Monthly Review; Or New Literary Journal, Volume 61

Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - Periodicals - 1780 - 590 pages
...furpafs him in poetry. ' If by a more noble and more adequate conception that be confidered as Wit, which is at once natural and new, that which, though not obvious, is, upon its firll production, acknowledged to be jull; if it be that, which he that never found it, wonders how...
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Monthly Review; Or New Literary Journal, Volume 61

Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - Periodicals - 1780 - 590 pages
...furpafs him in poetry. ' If by a more noble and more adequate conception that be confidered as Wit, which is at once natural and new, that which, though not obvious, is, apon its firlr, produflion, acknowledged to be iuit ; if it be that, which he that never found it,...
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The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal, Volume 61

Books - 1780 - 596 pages
...happinefs of language. ' If by a more noble and more adequate conception that be confidered as Wit, which is at once natural and new, that which, though not obvious, U, upon its firft production, acknowledged to be jail ; if it be that, which he that never found it,...
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The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets;: Cowley. Denham. Milton. Butler ...

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 494 pages
...to happinefs of language. If by a more noble and more adequate conception that be confidered as Wit, which is at once natural and new, that which, though, not obvious, is, upon its firft production, acknowledged to be juft ; if it be that, which he that never found it, wonders how...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: The lives of the most eminent English poets

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 498 pages
...to happinefs of language. If by a more noble and more adequate conception that be confidered as Wit, which is at once natural and new, that which, though not obvious, is, upon its firft production, acknowledged to be juft ; if it be that, which he that never found it wonders how...
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The lives of the most eminent English poets

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 494 pages
...to happinefs of language. If by a more noble and more adequate conception that be confidered as Wit, which is at once natural and new, that which, though not obvious, is, upon its firft production, acknowledged to be juft ; if it be that, which he that never found it wonders how...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson.LL.D..: The lives of the English poets

Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 478 pages
...to happinefs of language. If by a more noble and more adequate conception that be confidered as wit which is at once natural and new, that which, though not obvious, is, upon its firft production, acknowledged to be juft; if it be that which he that never found it wonders how he...
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