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Page 9
I • Mr. Spectator , Am very sorry to find by your discourse upon the eye , that you
have not thoroughly studied the nature and force of that part of a beauteous face ,
· Had you ever been in love , you would have said ten • thousand things , which ...
I • Mr. Spectator , Am very sorry to find by your discourse upon the eye , that you
have not thoroughly studied the nature and force of that part of a beauteous face ,
· Had you ever been in love , you would have said ten • thousand things , which ...
Page 10
This eye is what affects chance - medley , and cn a sudden , as “ if it attended to
another thing , turns all its charms against an ogler . The eye of Lusitania is an
instrument • of premeditated murder ; but the design being visible , destroys the ...
This eye is what affects chance - medley , and cn a sudden , as “ if it attended to
another thing , turns all its charms against an ogler . The eye of Lusitania is an
instrument • of premeditated murder ; but the design being visible , destroys the ...
Page 14
And here give me leave to mention what Monsieur Boileau has . so very well
enlarged upon in the preface to his works , that wit and fine writing do not confift
fo much in advancing things that are new , as in giving things that are known an ...
And here give me leave to mention what Monsieur Boileau has . so very well
enlarged upon in the preface to his works , that wit and fine writing do not confift
fo much in advancing things that are new , as in giving things that are known an ...
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These things , dear madam , will • be lasting satisfactions , when the fine ladies ,
and the • coxcombs by whom they form ... Dear Mr. Spectator , YOU OU have no
goodness in the world , and are not in earnest in any thing you say that is serious
...
These things , dear madam , will • be lasting satisfactions , when the fine ladies ,
and the • coxcombs by whom they form ... Dear Mr. Spectator , YOU OU have no
goodness in the world , and are not in earnest in any thing you say that is serious
...
Page 23
Thus is fame a thing difficult to be obtained by all , but particularly by those who
thirst after it , finca most men have so much either of ill - nature , or of wariness ,
as not to gratify or footh the vanity of the ambitious man ; and since this very thirst
...
Thus is fame a thing difficult to be obtained by all , but particularly by those who
thirst after it , finca most men have so much either of ill - nature , or of wariness ,
as not to gratify or footh the vanity of the ambitious man ; and since this very thirst
...
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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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