The Spectator, Volume 5J. Tonson, 1729 - English essays |
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Page 19
... seems to bear fome Relation to the following Letter , which I recei ved the Day before . · SIR , I Have read your last Saturday's Obfervation on the Fourth Book of Milton with great Satisfacti- on , and am particularly pleased with the ...
... seems to bear fome Relation to the following Letter , which I recei ved the Day before . · SIR , I Have read your last Saturday's Obfervation on the Fourth Book of Milton with great Satisfacti- on , and am particularly pleased with the ...
Page 20
... seem'd another Sky . As I bent down to look , juft oppofite , A Shape within the watry Gleam appear'd Bending to look on me ; I started back , It started back ; but pleas'd I foon return'd , Pleas'd it return'd as foon with answering ...
... seem'd another Sky . As I bent down to look , juft oppofite , A Shape within the watry Gleam appear'd Bending to look on me ; I started back , It started back ; but pleas'd I foon return'd , Pleas'd it return'd as foon with answering ...
Page 44
... seem to have fixed the Point of Honour principally in that Part . The Spaniards were wonderfully tender in this ... seems to have been in Queen Mary's Days , as the curious Reader may find , if he pleases to perufe the Figures of ...
... seem to have fixed the Point of Honour principally in that Part . The Spaniards were wonderfully tender in this ... seems to have been in Queen Mary's Days , as the curious Reader may find , if he pleases to perufe the Figures of ...
Page 106
... Seems wifeft , vertuoufeft , difcreeteft , beft : All higher Knowledge in her Prefence falls Degraded Wifdom in difcourfe with her Lofes difcountenanc'd , and like Folly fhews ; Authority and Reafon on her wait , As one intended first ...
... Seems wifeft , vertuoufeft , difcreeteft , beft : All higher Knowledge in her Prefence falls Degraded Wifdom in difcourfe with her Lofes difcountenanc'd , and like Folly fhews ; Authority and Reafon on her wait , As one intended first ...
Page 131
... seem to be any thing , is really to be what he would feem to be . Befides that it is many times as troublesome to make good the Pretence of a good Quality , as to have it ; and if a Man have it not , it is ten to one but he is difcover ...
... seem to be any thing , is really to be what he would feem to be . Befides that it is many times as troublesome to make good the Pretence of a good Quality , as to have it ; and if a Man have it not , it is ten to one but he is difcover ...
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