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This double motion of the stone is admirably described in the numbers of these verses : as in the four first it is heaved up by several Spondees intermixed with proper breathing places , and at last trundles down in a continual line of ...
This double motion of the stone is admirably described in the numbers of these verses : as in the four first it is heaved up by several Spondees intermixed with proper breathing places , and at last trundles down in a continual line of ...
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I fall in the last place fhew , that it hinders us from obtaining an end which we have abilities to acquire , and which is accompanied with fulness of satisfaction . I need not tell my reader , that I mean by this end that happiness ...
I fall in the last place fhew , that it hinders us from obtaining an end which we have abilities to acquire , and which is accompanied with fulness of satisfaction . I need not tell my reader , that I mean by this end that happiness ...
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weak stirrings and tendencies of the will which have not yet formed themselves into regular purposes and designs , to the last intire finishing and consummation of a good habit . ' He beholds the first imperfect rudiments of a virtue in ...
weak stirrings and tendencies of the will which have not yet formed themselves into regular purposes and designs , to the last intire finishing and consummation of a good habit . ' He beholds the first imperfect rudiments of a virtue in ...
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... who , as soon as named , will be thought capable of advancing the present state of music , • Mr. Spectator , I Am confiderably obliged to you for your speedy : publication of my last in your's of the 18th instant , ' and - am in no ...
... who , as soon as named , will be thought capable of advancing the present state of music , • Mr. Spectator , I Am confiderably obliged to you for your speedy : publication of my last in your's of the 18th instant , ' and - am in no ...
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Years following years steal something ev'ry day , At last they steal us from ourselves away . POPE . I a 6 a 3 * Mr. Spectator , Am now in the fixty - fifth year of my age , and hav- : pleasure , the decay of my faculties is a ftagna• ...
Years following years steal something ev'ry day , At last they steal us from ourselves away . POPE . I a 6 a 3 * Mr. Spectator , Am now in the fixty - fifth year of my age , and hav- : pleasure , the decay of my faculties is a ftagna• ...
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| Title | The Spectator, Volume 4 The Spectator, Sir Richard Steele |
| Contributors | Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele |
| Publisher | J. and R. Tonson, 1767 |
| Original from | National Library of Israel |
| Digitized | 4 Sep 2019 |
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