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Page 4
You have passed that year of life wherein the most able and fortunate captain ,
before your time , declared he had lived enough both to nature and to glory ; and
your Grace may make that reflexion with much more justice . He spoke it after he
...
You have passed that year of life wherein the most able and fortunate captain ,
before your time , declared he had lived enough both to nature and to glory ; and
your Grace may make that reflexion with much more justice . He spoke it after he
...
Page 13
The greatest wits that ever were produced in one age , lived together in so good
an understanding , and celebrated one another with so much generosity , that
each of them receives an additional luftre from his contemporaries , and is more ...
The greatest wits that ever were produced in one age , lived together in so good
an understanding , and celebrated one another with so much generosity , that
each of them receives an additional luftre from his contemporaries , and is more ...
Page 17
... is a little extravagant ; one would o think you lived the lives of fylvan deities , or
roved among . the walks of paradise , like the first happy pair . • But pr'ythee leave
these whimsies , and come to town in order to live and talk like other mortals .
... is a little extravagant ; one would o think you lived the lives of fylvan deities , or
roved among . the walks of paradise , like the first happy pair . • But pr'ythee leave
these whimsies , and come to town in order to live and talk like other mortals .
Page 26
Admiration is a very lort - lived passion , that immediately decays upon growing
familiar with its obje & t , unless it be til fed with fresh discoveries , and kept alive
by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view . And even the ...
Admiration is a very lort - lived passion , that immediately decays upon growing
familiar with its obje & t , unless it be til fed with fresh discoveries , and kept alive
by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view . And even the ...
Page 40
I have lived a bachelor to this day ; and instead of a * numerous offspring , with
which , in the regular ways of life , I might possibly have delighted myself , I have
only < 6 only to amuse myself with the repetition of old 40 No 260 THE ...
I have lived a bachelor to this day ; and instead of a * numerous offspring , with
which , in the regular ways of life , I might possibly have delighted myself , I have
only < 6 only to amuse myself with the repetition of old 40 No 260 THE ...
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Spectator, Volume 4 The British essayists The Spectator, Joseph Addison |
| Publisher | J. and R. Tonson, 1767 |
| Original from | National Library of Israel |
| Digitized | 4 Sep 2019 |
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