The Spectator, Volume 6Harrison and Company, 1793 - English essays |
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... fancy , the leaft alter- ation I knew was fit and fufficient to draw that fancy to fome other fubject . You have chofen me from a low eftate to be your Queen and companion , far beyond my defert or defire . If then you found me worthy ...
... fancy , the leaft alter- ation I knew was fit and fufficient to draw that fancy to fome other fubject . You have chofen me from a low eftate to be your Queen and companion , far beyond my defert or defire . If then you found me worthy ...
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... fancy themselves engaged in a courfe of virtue ! I fhall endeavour , therefore , to lay down fome rules for the difcovery of those vices that lurk in the fecret corners of the foul , and to fhew my reader thofe methods by which he may ...
... fancy themselves engaged in a courfe of virtue ! I fhall endeavour , therefore , to lay down fome rules for the difcovery of those vices that lurk in the fecret corners of the foul , and to fhew my reader thofe methods by which he may ...
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... indulged his flame . I leave you to guefs after this what must be his furprife , when , upon his preffing for my full confent one day , I told him , I wondered what could make him fancy he him , THE SPECTATOR . 23 I ...
... indulged his flame . I leave you to guefs after this what must be his furprife , when , upon his preffing for my full confent one day , I told him , I wondered what could make him fancy he him , THE SPECTATOR . 23 I ...
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Joseph Addison. him , I wondered what could make him fancy he had ever any place in my affections . His own fex allow him fenfe , and all ours good - breeding . His perfon is fuch as might , without vanity , make him believe ... fancy he ...
Joseph Addison. him , I wondered what could make him fancy he had ever any place in my affections . His own fex allow him fenfe , and all ours good - breeding . His perfon is fuch as might , without vanity , make him believe ... fancy he ...
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... fancy , and gives a greatnefs of mind to the rea- der , which few of the critics befides Longinus have confidered . Our general tafte in England is for epigram , turns of wit , and forced conceits , which have no manner of influence ...
... fancy , and gives a greatnefs of mind to the rea- der , which few of the critics befides Longinus have confidered . Our general tafte in England is for epigram , turns of wit , and forced conceits , which have no manner of influence ...
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