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Page 41
... Writers who en deavour to make themselves diverting without being Immoral .
One may apply to these Authors that Passage s in Waller , Poets lose half the
Praise they would have got , Were it but knows what they discreetly blot As C No.
... Writers who en deavour to make themselves diverting without being Immoral .
One may apply to these Authors that Passage s in Waller , Poets lose half the
Praise they would have got , Were it but knows what they discreetly blot As C No.
Page 56
... is only another Name for Reason , which checks and advises him upon that
occasion ; and at her first Appearance touches him upon the Head , that part of
the Man being looked upon as the Seat of Reason And thus of the rest of the
Poem .
... is only another Name for Reason , which checks and advises him upon that
occasion ; and at her first Appearance touches him upon the Head , that part of
the Man being looked upon as the Seat of Reason And thus of the rest of the
Poem .
Page 61
The Poets value themselves very much for sleeping on Parnassus , but I never
heard they got a Groat by it : On the contrary , our Friend Nicholas gets more by
sleeping than he could by working , and may be more properly said , than ever ...
The Poets value themselves very much for sleeping on Parnassus , but I never
heard they got a Groat by it : On the contrary , our Friend Nicholas gets more by
sleeping than he could by working , and may be more properly said , than ever ...
Page 105
... the Poets and Philosophers ; but I do not remember to have met with any
Author who has treated of those ill Habits Men are subject to , not so much by
reason of their different Ages and Tempers , as the particular Profession or
Business in ...
... the Poets and Philosophers ; but I do not remember to have met with any
Author who has treated of those ill Habits Men are subject to , not so much by
reason of their different Ages and Tempers , as the particular Profession or
Business in ...
Page 194
This is what gives Birth to the Motto of a Speculation , which I rather chuse to take
out of the Poets than the Prose Writers , as the former generally give a finer Turn
to a Thought than the latter , and by cou it in few Words , and in harmonious ...
This is what gives Birth to the Motto of a Speculation , which I rather chuse to take
out of the Poets than the Prose Writers , as the former generally give a finer Turn
to a Thought than the latter , and by cou it in few Words , and in harmonious ...
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| Title | The Spectator, Volume 2 Everyman's library. Essays Everyman's library: Essays and belles lettres The Spectator, George Gregory Smith |
| Authors | Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele |
| Editor | George Gregory Smith |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | J.M. Dent & Company, 1924 |
| Original from | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| Digitized | 3 Feb 2016 |
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