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... and aspect of the Duke of Marlborough , I question not but it would fill the reader with more agreeable images , and give him a more delightful entertainment than what can be found in the following , or any other book .
... and aspect of the Duke of Marlborough , I question not but it would fill the reader with more agreeable images , and give him a more delightful entertainment than what can be found in the following , or any other book .
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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 ...
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 ...
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They are some of them uncommon , but such as the reader mast assent to , when he sees them explained with that elegance and perfpicuity in which they are delivered . As for those which are the most knowa , and the most received ...
They are some of them uncommon , but such as the reader mast assent to , when he sees them explained with that elegance and perfpicuity in which they are delivered . As for those which are the most knowa , and the most received ...
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Speaking of the insipid 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 ...
Speaking of the insipid 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 ...
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a common stamp , 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 ...
a common stamp , 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 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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