The Spectator, Volume 2Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele J. Tonson, 1724 |
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... publick Meetings , You are admi- red by all that approach Suosite 20 DO You as the Life and Geni- us of the Converfation . con that you What an happy Conjun- 90UC ction of different Talents meets in him whofe whole Difcourfe is at once ...
... publick Meetings , You are admi- red by all that approach Suosite 20 DO You as the Life and Geni- us of the Converfation . con that you What an happy Conjun- 90UC ction of different Talents meets in him whofe whole Difcourfe is at once ...
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... publick Encouragement . THE modern Tragedy excels that of Greece and Rome , in the Intricacy and Difpofition of the Fable ; but , what a Chriftian Writer would be ashamed to own , falls infinitely fhort of it in the Moral part of the ...
... publick Encouragement . THE modern Tragedy excels that of Greece and Rome , in the Intricacy and Difpofition of the Fable ; but , what a Chriftian Writer would be ashamed to own , falls infinitely fhort of it in the Moral part of the ...
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... publick Difputes of the Stage , from thofe that ended happily . Terror and Commife- bration leave a pleafing Anguish in the Mind , and fix the Audience in fuch a bferious Compofure of Thought , as is much more lafting and delightful ...
... publick Difputes of the Stage , from thofe that ended happily . Terror and Commife- bration leave a pleafing Anguish in the Mind , and fix the Audience in fuch a bferious Compofure of Thought , as is much more lafting and delightful ...
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... publick , as a Warn- ing for other Men always to examine into what they admire . SIR , Son of general Knowledge , I make UPPOSING you to be a Per- my Application to you on a very par- ticular Occafion . I have a great Mind to be rid of ...
... publick , as a Warn- ing for other Men always to examine into what they admire . SIR , Son of general Knowledge , I make UPPOSING you to be a Per- my Application to you on a very par- ticular Occafion . I have a great Mind to be rid of ...
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... Publick Weal : Thofe " I'll give you up . But you must do ' me then the Juftice to own , that no- thing can be more useful or laudable , ' than the Scheme we go upon . To a ' void Nicknames and Witticisms , we ' call our felves The ...
... Publick Weal : Thofe " I'll give you up . But you must do ' me then the Juftice to own , that no- thing can be more useful or laudable , ' than the Scheme we go upon . To a ' void Nicknames and Witticisms , we ' call our felves The ...
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