The Spectator ..Peter Wilson, 1755 |
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Page 41
... hears me talk Latin in my fleep . And I dream two or three nights in a week I am reading Juvenal and Homer . My mafte , feems as well pleafed with my performances as any boy's in the fame clafs . I think , if I know my own mind , I ...
... hears me talk Latin in my fleep . And I dream two or three nights in a week I am reading Juvenal and Homer . My mafte , feems as well pleafed with my performances as any boy's in the fame clafs . I think , if I know my own mind , I ...
Page 63
... hear him , at the conclufion of almoft every fcene , telling me that he could not imagine how the play would end . One while he appeared much con- cerned for Andramache ; and a little while after as much for Hermione ; and was extremely ...
... hear him , at the conclufion of almoft every fcene , telling me that he could not imagine how the play would end . One while he appeared much con- cerned for Andramache ; and a little while after as much for Hermione ; and was extremely ...
Page 66
• " · pride , company with old men , I hear them fpeak obfcurely , er reafon prepofterously ( into which abfurdities , pre- judice , pride , or intereft , will fometimes throw the wifeft ) I count it no crime to rectify their reafonings ...
• " · pride , company with old men , I hear them fpeak obfcurely , er reafon prepofterously ( into which abfurdities , pre- judice , pride , or intereft , will fometimes throw the wifeft ) I count it no crime to rectify their reafonings ...
Page 71
... hears that his neighbours die all about him ; fo youth is often frighted from vice , by hearing the ill report it brings upon others . " · Xenophon's fchools of equity , in his life of Cyrus the Great , are fufficiently famous . He ...
... hears that his neighbours die all about him ; fo youth is often frighted from vice , by hearing the ill report it brings upon others . " · Xenophon's fchools of equity , in his life of Cyrus the Great , are fufficiently famous . He ...
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... hear fuch reflexions on the feveral incidents of the play , as pure nature fug- gefted , and from the other fuch as flowed from the exacteft art and judgment : tho ' I must confefs that my curiofity led me fo much to obferve the ...
... hear fuch reflexions on the feveral incidents of the play , as pure nature fug- gefted , and from the other fuch as flowed from the exacteft art and judgment : tho ' I must confefs that my curiofity led me fo much to obferve the ...
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