The Spectator, Volume 2Harrison and Company, 1793 - English essays |
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Page 15
... appear more perfect than when it came fresh from the mafter's pencil . I could not forbear looking upon the face of this ancient work- man , and immediately , by the long lock of hair upon his forehead , difcovered him to be Time ...
... appear more perfect than when it came fresh from the mafter's pencil . I could not forbear looking upon the face of this ancient work- man , and immediately , by the long lock of hair upon his forehead , difcovered him to be Time ...
Page 18
... appear " dreams or fhort intervals of amufement , from this one " affliction which has feized my very being : pardon me , " oh Pharamond , if my griefs give me leave , that I lay " before you , in the anguifh of a wounded mind , that ...
... appear " dreams or fhort intervals of amufement , from this one " affliction which has feized my very being : pardon me , " oh Pharamond , if my griefs give me leave , that I lay " before you , in the anguifh of a wounded mind , that ...
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... appear ; for as no mortal author , in the ordinary fate and viciffitude of things , knows to what use his works may , fome time or other , be applied , a man may often meet with very celebrated names in a paper of to- bacco . I have ...
... appear ; for as no mortal author , in the ordinary fate and viciffitude of things , knows to what use his works may , fome time or other , be applied , a man may often meet with very celebrated names in a paper of to- bacco . I have ...
Page 21
... appear genuine and unaffected , they are able to move the mind of the most polite reader with inward meltings of humanity and compaffion . The incidents grow out of the fubject , and are fuch as are the moft proper to excite pity ; for ...
... appear genuine and unaffected , they are able to move the mind of the most polite reader with inward meltings of humanity and compaffion . The incidents grow out of the fubject , and are fuch as are the moft proper to excite pity ; for ...
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... appear THH ADDISON . HERE are feveral arts which all men are in fome measure mafters of , without having been at the pains of learning them . Every one that peaks or rea- fons fons is a grammarian and a logician , though he 22 THE ...
... appear THH ADDISON . HERE are feveral arts which all men are in fome measure mafters of , without having been at the pains of learning them . Every one that peaks or rea- fons fons is a grammarian and a logician , though he 22 THE ...
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