The Spectator. ...John Bell, 1776 - 361 pages |
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... Such perfons are very acceptable to a young author , for they defire no more in any thing but to be new to be agreeable . If I found confolation among fuch , I was as much difquieted by the incapacity of others . These are mortals who ...
... Such perfons are very acceptable to a young author , for they defire no more in any thing but to be new to be agreeable . If I found confolation among fuch , I was as much difquieted by the incapacity of others . These are mortals who ...
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... friends , and not in public even with them . Such an habit has perhaps raised in me uncommon reflections ; but this effect I cannot communicate but but by my writings . As my pleasures are almost N ° 4 . 10 THE SPECTATOR .
... friends , and not in public even with them . Such an habit has perhaps raised in me uncommon reflections ; but this effect I cannot communicate but but by my writings . As my pleasures are almost N ° 4 . 10 THE SPECTATOR .
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Such are the wits , to whofe taftes we fo ambitiously conform ourselves . The truth of it is , the finest writers among the modern Italians exprefs them- felves in fuch a florid form of words , and fuch te- dious circumlocutions , as ...
Such are the wits , to whofe taftes we fo ambitiously conform ourselves . The truth of it is , the finest writers among the modern Italians exprefs them- felves in fuch a florid form of words , and fuch te- dious circumlocutions , as ...
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... honeft , witty than good- natured , is the fource of moft of the ill habits of life . Such falfe impreffions are owing to the aban- VOL . I. doned C doned writings of men of wit , and the aukward No 6 . 25 THE SPECTATOR .
... honeft , witty than good- natured , is the fource of moft of the ill habits of life . Such falfe impreffions are owing to the aban- VOL . I. doned C doned writings of men of wit , and the aukward No 6 . 25 THE SPECTATOR .
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