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... and describe the stature , the behaviour , and aspect of the Duke of
Marlborough , I question not but it would all the reader with more agreeable
images , and give him a more delightful entertainment than what can be found in
the following ...
... and describe the stature , the behaviour , and aspect of the Duke of
Marlborough , I question not but it would all the reader with more agreeable
images , and give him a more delightful entertainment than what can be found in
the following ...
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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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They are some cf them uncoinmon , but such as the reader mast afsent to , when
he sees them explained with that elegance and perfpicuity in which they are
delivered . As for those which are the most known , and the most received , they
are ...
They are some cf them uncoinmon , but such as the reader mast afsent to , when
he sees them explained with that elegance and perfpicuity in which they are
delivered . As for those which are the most known , and the most received , they
are ...
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Speaking of the infipid smoothness which some readers are so much in love with
, he has the following verfes . “ These equal fyllables alone ... The reader may
observe the following lines in the same view . “ A needless Alexandrine ends the
...
Speaking of the infipid smoothness which some readers are so much in love with
, he has the following verfes . “ These equal fyllables alone ... The reader may
observe the following lines in the same view . “ A needless Alexandrine ends the
...
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common itamp , never meets with that reception and approbation among its
readers as what is aimed at a person whose merit places him upon an eminence
, and gives him a more conspicuous figure among men . Whether it be that we
think it ...
common itamp , never meets with that reception and approbation among its
readers as what is aimed at a person whose merit places him upon an eminence
, and gives him a more conspicuous figure among men . Whether it be that we
think it ...
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| 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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