The idler. PoemsPafraets Book Company, 1908 |
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... 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 part of the visitants neither feel ...
... 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 part of the visitants neither feel ...
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... reason can descend from her throne , to pass her sentence upon the things compared , drives us to- wards the object proportioned to our faculties , by an impulse gentle , yet irresistible ; for the harmonick system of the Universe , and ...
... reason can descend from her throne , to pass her sentence upon the things compared , drives us to- wards the object proportioned to our faculties , by an impulse gentle , yet irresistible ; for the harmonick system of the Universe , and ...
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... reason , that Michael Angelo sometimes trangressed those limits ; and I think I have seen figures of him of which it was very difficult to determine whether they were in the high- est degree sublime or extremely ridiculous . Such faults ...
... reason , that Michael Angelo sometimes trangressed those limits ; and I think I have seen figures of him of which it was very difficult to determine whether they were in the high- est degree sublime or extremely ridiculous . Such faults ...
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... reason immediately compare the painter to Raffaelle and Michael Angeloa . THA No. 80. SATURDAY , OCTOBER 27 , 1759 HAT every day has its pains and sorrows is universally experienced , and almost universally confessed ; but let us not ...
... reason immediately compare the painter to Raffaelle and Michael Angeloa . THA No. 80. SATURDAY , OCTOBER 27 , 1759 HAT every day has its pains and sorrows is universally experienced , and almost universally confessed ; but let us not ...
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... reason or to Christianity , deserved well to be considered by those who have rendered their names immortal by thus civilizing mankind . " Black- stone , Com . ii . 7 . I love the University of Salamanca , said Johnson , with warm ...
... reason or to Christianity , deserved well to be considered by those who have rendered their names immortal by thus civilizing mankind . " Black- stone , Com . ii . 7 . I love the University of Salamanca , said Johnson , with warm ...
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