The Spectator, Volume 4Messrs. Payne, Rivington, Davis, Longman, Dodsley [and 23 others in London], 1788 - English essays |
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TO THE DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH . MY LORD , A S it is natural to have a fondness for what has coft us much time and atten- tion to produce , I hope your Grace will forgive and endeavour to pre- ferve this work from oblivion , by VOL . IV ...
TO THE DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH . MY LORD , A S it is natural to have a fondness for what has coft us much time and atten- tion to produce , I hope your Grace will forgive and endeavour to pre- ferve this work from oblivion , by VOL . IV ...
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... , de- clared he had lived enough both to nature and to glory ; and your Grace may make that reflexion with much more justice . He spoke it after he had arrived at empire by an an ufurpation upon those whom he had enslaved ; but DEDICATION .
... , de- clared he had lived enough both to nature and to glory ; and your Grace may make that reflexion with much more justice . He spoke it after he had arrived at empire by an an ufurpation upon those whom he had enslaved ; but DEDICATION .
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... nature has • preferved the eyes to herself , that she may not be dif- guifed or mifreprefented . The poor bride can give her • hand , and fay , I do , with a languishing air , to the man fhe is obliged by cruel parents to take for ...
... nature has • preferved the eyes to herself , that she may not be dif- guifed or mifreprefented . The poor bride can give her • hand , and fay , I do , with a languishing air , to the man fhe is obliged by cruel parents to take for ...
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... natural for fuch as have not fucceeded in it to depreciate the works of those who have . For fince they cannot raise themselves to the reputation of their fellow - writers ... nature into a very fine poem ; I N ° 253 13 THE SPECTATOR .
... natural for fuch as have not fucceeded in it to depreciate the works of those who have . For fince they cannot raise themselves to the reputation of their fellow - writers ... nature into a very fine poem ; I N ° 253 13 THE SPECTATOR .
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of this nature into a very fine poem ; I mean The Art of Criticism , which was published feme months fince , and is a master piece in its kind . The observations follow one another like those in Horace's Art of Poetry , without that ...
of this nature into a very fine poem ; I mean The Art of Criticism , which was published feme months fince , and is a master piece in its kind . The observations follow one another like those in Horace's Art of Poetry , without that ...
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