The idler. PoemsPafraets Book Company, 1908 |
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... give yourself strange airs ; But sure you'll find it hard to spoil The sense and taste of one that bears The name of Saville and of Boyle . Alas ! one bad example shown , How quickly all the sex pursue ! See , madam ! see the arts o ...
... give yourself strange airs ; But sure you'll find it hard to spoil The sense and taste of one that bears The name of Saville and of Boyle . Alas ! one bad example shown , How quickly all the sex pursue ! See , madam ! see the arts o ...
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... gives the idle and luxu- rious an annual reason for resorting , whenever they fancy themselves offended by the heat of London . What is the true motive of this periodical assembly , I have never yet been able to discover . The greater ...
... gives the idle and luxu- rious an annual reason for resorting , whenever they fancy themselves offended by the heat of London . What is the true motive of this periodical assembly , I have never yet been able to discover . The greater ...
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... 79. SATURDAY , OCTOBER 20 , 1759 TO THE IDLER . OUR acceptance of a former letter on painting gives me encouragement to offer a few more sketches on the same subject . Amongst the painters , and the writers on painting , 8 THE IDLER.
... 79. SATURDAY , OCTOBER 20 , 1759 TO THE IDLER . OUR acceptance of a former letter on painting gives me encouragement to offer a few more sketches on the same subject . Amongst the painters , and the writers on painting , 8 THE IDLER.
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... give place to a beauty of a superior kind , since one cannot be ob- tained but by departing from the other . If my opinion was asked concerning the works of Michael Angelo , whether they would receive any advantage from possessing this ...
... give place to a beauty of a superior kind , since one cannot be ob- tained but by departing from the other . If my opinion was asked concerning the works of Michael Angelo , whether they would receive any advantage from possessing this ...
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... give the preference , having seen only those two . To distinguish beauty , then , implies the having seen many individuals of that species . If it is asked , how is more skill acquired by the observation of greater numbers ? I answer ...
... give the preference , having seen only those two . To distinguish beauty , then , implies the having seen many individuals of that species . If it is asked , how is more skill acquired by the observation of greater numbers ? I answer ...
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