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An ardent love is always a strong ingredient in this paffion ; for the fame aífe ction
which stirs up the jealous man's defires , and gives the party beloved to beautiful
a figure in his imagination , makes him believe the kindles the same paflion in ...
An ardent love is always a strong ingredient in this paffion ; for the fame aífe ction
which stirs up the jealous man's defires , and gives the party beloved to beautiful
a figure in his imagination , makes him believe the kindles the same paflion in ...
Page 181
These are such as are both ugly and ill - natured , who have nothing beautiful in
themselves , and endeavour to detract from , or ridicule every thing which
appears fo in others . The tenth and last species of women were made out of the
bee ...
These are such as are both ugly and ill - natured , who have nothing beautiful in
themselves , and endeavour to detract from , or ridicule every thing which
appears fo in others . The tenth and last species of women were made out of the
bee ...
Page 188
Plato in the vision of Erus the Armenian , which I may possibly make the subject
of a future speculation , records fome . beautiful transmigrations ; as that the soul
of Orpheus , who was musical , melancholy , and a woman - hater , entered into a
...
Plato in the vision of Erus the Armenian , which I may possibly make the subject
of a future speculation , records fome . beautiful transmigrations ; as that the soul
of Orpheus , who was musical , melancholy , and a woman - hater , entered into a
...
Page 304
... Ovid : Some ' of the thoughts are of the fame turn , and the ' whole is written in a
kind of poetical prose . Philorinax to Chromation . NEVER EVER was a man more
overcome with so fans tastical a passion as mine . I have painted a s beautiful ...
... Ovid : Some ' of the thoughts are of the fame turn , and the ' whole is written in a
kind of poetical prose . Philorinax to Chromation . NEVER EVER was a man more
overcome with so fans tastical a passion as mine . I have painted a s beautiful ...
Page 323
In short , the Stoicks thought they could not sufficiently represent the excellence
of virtue , if they did not comprehend in the notion of it all possible perfections ;
and therefore did not only fuppofe , that it was transcendently beautiful in itself ,
but ...
In short , the Stoicks thought they could not sufficiently represent the excellence
of virtue , if they did not comprehend in the notion of it all possible perfections ;
and therefore did not only fuppofe , that it was transcendently beautiful in itself ,
but ...
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| Title | The Spectator, Volume 3 The Spectator, Sir Richard Steele |
| Contributors | Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele |
| Publisher | John Bell, 1776 |
| Original from | Lyon Public Library |
| Digitized | 20 Oct 2011 |
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