The Spectator, Volumes 1-2Dent, 1930 |
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Page vii
... number of editorial adepts , painfully eager to uphold its reputation for elegance . Even as early as 1764 " innumerable corruptions " ha 1 crept in , to the sorrow of the editor of the Reliques of Ancient English Poetry . He was ...
... number of editorial adepts , painfully eager to uphold its reputation for elegance . Even as early as 1764 " innumerable corruptions " ha 1 crept in , to the sorrow of the editor of the Reliques of Ancient English Poetry . He was ...
Page 280
... Number about an hundred . As I was counting the Arches , the Genius told me that this Bridge consisted at first of a thousand Arches ; but that a great Flood swept away the rest , and left the Bridge in the ruinous Condition I now ...
... Number about an hundred . As I was counting the Arches , the Genius told me that this Bridge consisted at first of a thousand Arches ; but that a great Flood swept away the rest , and left the Bridge in the ruinous Condition I now ...
Page 346
... Numbers come from the Mouth of a Betterton , the Multitude no more desired Sense to them , than our musical Connoisseurs ... number by its first and better known title , The Indian Emperor . PAGE 151. Motto . Ovid , Metam . i . 346 THE ...
... Numbers come from the Mouth of a Betterton , the Multitude no more desired Sense to them , than our musical Connoisseurs ... number by its first and better known title , The Indian Emperor . PAGE 151. Motto . Ovid , Metam . i . 346 THE ...
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