The Spectator, Volume 2Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele J. Tonson, 1724 |
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... fhew those , who are be- wildered , the Way which leads to their Profperity and Welfare . A gene- rous Concern for Your Country , and a Paffion for every thing which is truly A 4 Great Great and Noble , are what actuate all Your Life ...
... fhew those , who are be- wildered , the Way which leads to their Profperity and Welfare . A gene- rous Concern for Your Country , and a Paffion for every thing which is truly A 4 Great Great and Noble , are what actuate all Your Life ...
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... fhew more at large hereafter ; and in the mean time , that I may contribute fomething towards the Improvement of the English Tragedy , I fhall take notice , in this and in other fol- lowing Papers , of fome particular Parts in it that ...
... fhew more at large hereafter ; and in the mean time , that I may contribute fomething towards the Improvement of the English Tragedy , I fhall take notice , in this and in other fol- lowing Papers , of fome particular Parts in it that ...
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... fhew it felf in fuch a Variety of Lights as are gene- rally made ufe of by the Writers of our English Tragedy . I must in the next place obferve , that when our Thoughts are great and juft , they are often obfcured by the founding Phra ...
... fhew it felf in fuch a Variety of Lights as are gene- rally made ufe of by the Writers of our English Tragedy . I must in the next place obferve , that when our Thoughts are great and juft , they are often obfcured by the founding Phra ...
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... fhew how a Rant pleases beyond the moft juft and natural Thought that is not pronounced with Vehemence , I would defire the Reader , when he fees the Tragedy of Oedipus , to obferve how quietly the Hero is difmiffed at the End of the ...
... fhew how a Rant pleases beyond the moft juft and natural Thought that is not pronounced with Vehemence , I would defire the Reader , when he fees the Tragedy of Oedipus , to obferve how quietly the Hero is difmiffed at the End of the ...
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... fhew in another Pa- per the feveral Expedients which are practised by Authors of a Vulgar Genius to move Terror , Pity , or Admiration , in their Hearers . THE Taylor and the Painter often contribute to the Succefs of a Tragedy more ...
... fhew in another Pa- per the feveral Expedients which are practised by Authors of a Vulgar Genius to move Terror , Pity , or Admiration , in their Hearers . THE Taylor and the Painter often contribute to the Succefs of a Tragedy more ...
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