The Spectator, Volume 6Harrison and Company, 1793 - English essays |
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... thofe who indite their own fufferings . Grief has a natural eloquence belonging to it , and breaks out in more moving fentiments than can be fupplied by the finest imagination . Nature on this occafion dictates a thou- a thousand ...
... thofe who indite their own fufferings . Grief has a natural eloquence belonging to it , and breaks out in more moving fentiments than can be fupplied by the finest imagination . Nature on this occafion dictates a thou- a thousand ...
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... thofe feigned names , Mr. Such - a - one and Mrs. Such - a- one ; not being capable of raifing the foul out of the ordi- nary tracts and paffages of life up to that elevation which makes the life of the enamoured fo much fuperior to ...
... thofe feigned names , Mr. Such - a - one and Mrs. Such - a- one ; not being capable of raifing the foul out of the ordi- nary tracts and paffages of life up to that elevation which makes the life of the enamoured fo much fuperior to ...
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... thofe lay a claim to their care and compaffion who are walking in the paths of death , while they fancy themselves engaged in a courfe of virtue ! I fhall endeavour , therefore , to lay down fome rules for the difcovery of those vices ...
... thofe lay a claim to their care and compaffion who are walking in the paths of death , while they fancy themselves engaged in a courfe of virtue ! I fhall endeavour , therefore , to lay down fome rules for the difcovery of those vices ...
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... thofe with whom we converfe . Such a reflection is absolutely necessary , if we confider how apt we are either to value or condemn ourselves by the opi- nions of others , and to facrifice the report of our own hearts to the judgment of ...
... thofe with whom we converfe . Such a reflection is absolutely necessary , if we confider how apt we are either to value or condemn ourselves by the opi- nions of others , and to facrifice the report of our own hearts to the judgment of ...
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... thofe of education , and make the tranfgreffors odious to all who have merit enough to attract regard . It is in this taste that the scenery is fo beautifully ordered in the description which Antony makes in the dialogue between him and ...
... thofe of education , and make the tranfgreffors odious to all who have merit enough to attract regard . It is in this taste that the scenery is fo beautifully ordered in the description which Antony makes in the dialogue between him and ...
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