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Page 13
I need not tell my reader , that I here point at the reign of Auguftus , and I believe
he will be of my opinion , that neither Virgil nor Horace would have gained so
great a reputation in the world , had they not been the friends and admirers of
each ...
I need not tell my reader , that I here point at the reign of Auguftus , and I believe
he will be of my opinion , that neither Virgil nor Horace would have gained so
great a reputation in the world , had they not been the friends and admirers of
each ...
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Accordingly we find in ourselves a secret awe and veneration for the character of
one who moves about us in a regular and illustrious course of virtue , without any
regard to our good or ill opinions of him , to our reproaches or commendations .
Accordingly we find in ourselves a secret awe and veneration for the character of
one who moves about us in a regular and illustrious course of virtue , without any
regard to our good or ill opinions of him , to our reproaches or commendations .
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Nor is this common judgment and opinion of mankind illfounded : for certainly it
denotes no great bravery of mind to be worked up to any noble action by fo
selfish a motive , and to do thai out of a desire of fame , which we could not be ...
Nor is this common judgment and opinion of mankind illfounded : for certainly it
denotes no great bravery of mind to be worked up to any noble action by fo
selfish a motive , and to do thai out of a desire of fame , which we could not be ...
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... or that we are pleased by some implicit kind of revenge to see him taken down
and humbled in his reputation , and in some measure reduced to our own rank ,
who had so far raised himself above us in the reports and opinions of mankind .
... or that we are pleased by some implicit kind of revenge to see him taken down
and humbled in his reputation , and in some measure reduced to our own rank ,
who had so far raised himself above us in the reports and opinions of mankind .
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... if they fall any thing below the opinion that is conceived of him , though they
might raise the reputation of another , they are a diminution to his . One would
think there Mould be something wonderfully pleasing in the possession of fame ,
that ...
... if they fall any thing below the opinion that is conceived of him , though they
might raise the reputation of another , they are a diminution to his . One would
think there Mould be something wonderfully pleasing in the possession of fame ,
that ...
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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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