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No. 125. The difficulty of defining comedy. Tragick and comick sentiments confounded.

May 28, 1751

Descriptas servare vices, operumque colores, Cur ego, si nequeo ignoroque, pota salutor? HOR. De Ar. Poet. 86. But if, through …

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No. 124. The lady’s misery in a summer retirement.

May 25, 1751

Taciturn sylvas inter reptare salubres, Curantem quicquid dignim sapiente bonoque est? HOR. Lib. i. Ep. iv. 4. To range in …

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No. 123. The young trader turned gentleman.

May 21, 1751

Even while I am preparing to write a history of disappointed expectations, I cannot forbear to flatter myself.

No. 122. A criticism on the English historians.

May 18, 1751

Nescio qua natale solum dulcedine captos Ducit. OVID, Ex Pon. Lib. i. Ep. iii. 35. By secret charms our native …

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No. 121. The dangers of imitation. The impropriety of imitating Spenser.

May 14, 1751

O imitatores, servum pecus! Hor. Lib. i. Ep. xix. 19. Away, ye imitators, servile herd! ELPHINSTON. I have been informed …

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No. 120. The history of Almamoulin the son of Nouradin.

May 11, 1751

In the reign of Jenghiz Can, conqueror of the east, in the city of Samarcand, lived Nouradin the merchant, renowned throughout all India.

No. 119. Tranquilla’s account of her lovers, opposed to Hymenaeus.

May 7, 1751

Iliacos intra muros peccatur, et extra. HOR. Lib. i. Ep. ii, 16. Faults lay on either side the Trojan tow’rs. …

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No. 118. The narrowness of fame.

May 4, 1751

Omnes illacrymabiles Urgentur, ignotique longa Nocte. Hon. Lib. iv. Ode ix. 26. In endless night they sleep, unwept, unknown. FRANCIS. …

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