The Spectator, Volumes 3-4Dent, 1930 |
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Page 55
... greatest Height . To justifie this Assertion , I shall put my Reader in mind of Horace , the greatest Wit and Critick in the Augustan Age ; and of Boileau , the most correct Poet among the Moderns : Not to mention la Fontaine , who by ...
... greatest Height . To justifie this Assertion , I shall put my Reader in mind of Horace , the greatest Wit and Critick in the Augustan Age ; and of Boileau , the most correct Poet among the Moderns : Not to mention la Fontaine , who by ...
Page 121
... greatest Statesmen of the Age in which he lived , being asked by a Friend , How he was able to dispatch that Multitude of Affairs in which he was engaged ; replyed , That his whole Art consisted in doing one Thing at once . If , says he ...
... greatest Statesmen of the Age in which he lived , being asked by a Friend , How he was able to dispatch that Multitude of Affairs in which he was engaged ; replyed , That his whole Art consisted in doing one Thing at once . If , says he ...
Page 158
... greatest Minds to their last Moments : They avoided even an indecent Posture in the very Article of Death . Thus Caesar gather'd his Robe about him , .. that he might not fall in a Manner unbecoming of himself ; and the greatest Concern ...
... greatest Minds to their last Moments : They avoided even an indecent Posture in the very Article of Death . Thus Caesar gather'd his Robe about him , .. that he might not fall in a Manner unbecoming of himself ; and the greatest Concern ...
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