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... meet with in hiftories , make a deeper impreffion on the mind of the reader , than the most laboured ftrokes in a well - written tragedy . Truth and matter of fact fets the perfon actually be- fore us in the one , whom faction places at ...
... meet with in hiftories , make a deeper impreffion on the mind of the reader , than the most laboured ftrokes in a well - written tragedy . Truth and matter of fact fets the perfon actually be- fore us in the one , whom faction places at ...
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... meet your < eyes , after what has paffed , I flatter myfelf , that , • amidst all their confufion , you will discover such a ⚫ tenderness in mine , as none can imitate but those • • who who love . I fhall be all this month at No. 401 ...
... meet your < eyes , after what has paffed , I flatter myfelf , that , • amidst all their confufion , you will discover such a ⚫ tenderness in mine , as none can imitate but those • • who who love . I fhall be all this month at No. 401 ...
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pretty plain , that most of the abfurdity , and ridi- cule we meet with in the world is generally owing to the impertinent affectation of excelling in cha- racters men are not fit for , and for which Nature never defigned them . Every ...
pretty plain , that most of the abfurdity , and ridi- cule we meet with in the world is generally owing to the impertinent affectation of excelling in cha- racters men are not fit for , and for which Nature never defigned them . Every ...
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... meet with excellent words , and at the fame time , a wonderful variety of them . There is no paffion that is not finely expreffed in those parts of the infpired writ- ings , which are proper for divine fongs and an- thems . There is a ...
... meet with excellent words , and at the fame time , a wonderful variety of them . There is no paffion that is not finely expreffed in those parts of the infpired writ- ings , which are proper for divine fongs and an- thems . There is a ...
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... meet with the fame speaking ftatues at our bars , and in all public places of debate . Our words flow from us in a smooth continued ftream , without thofe ftrainings of the voice , motions of the body , and majefty of the hand , which ...
... meet with the fame speaking ftatues at our bars , and in all public places of debate . Our words flow from us in a smooth continued ftream , without thofe ftrainings of the voice , motions of the body , and majefty of the hand , which ...
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againſt agreeable appear arife beautiful becauſe befides buſineſs caft caufe confider confideration converfation defcribed defcription defign defire delight difcourfe diſcovered dreffed eyes faid fame fancy fatire fatisfaction fecond fecret feems feen felves fenfe feveral fhall fhew fhort fhould fide fight filk fince firft firſt fome fomething fometimes foul fpeak fpeculations fpirits ftate ftill fubject fuch fufficient fure give greateſt heart herſelf higheſt himſelf humble fervant humour ibid imagination inftances itſelf kind lady laft lefs loft manner mind modefty moft moſt muft muſt myſelf nature neceffary never obferved occafion ourſelves OVID paffed paffions paper perfons pleafing pleaſant pleaſed pleaſure poet prefent purpoſe raiſe reader reafon reflections reft rife Sempronia ſeveral ſhe ſpeak SPECTATOR ſuch thefe themſelves theſe thing thofe thoſe thought thouſand tion underſtanding uſe virtue whofe writing