The Spectator, Volumes 1-2Dent, 1930 |
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... Writings with such poor Imaginations and Conceits , as our Youths are ashamed of before they have been two Years at the University , Some may be apt to think , that it is the difference of Genius which produces this difference in the ...
... Writings with such poor Imaginations and Conceits , as our Youths are ashamed of before they have been two Years at the University , Some may be apt to think , that it is the difference of Genius which produces this difference in the ...
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... Writings , both in Prose and Verse . This is that natural Way of Writing , that beautiful Simplicity , which we so much admire in the Compositions of the Ancients ; and which no Body deviates from , but those who want Strength of Genius ...
... Writings , both in Prose and Verse . This is that natural Way of Writing , that beautiful Simplicity , which we so much admire in the Compositions of the Ancients ; and which no Body deviates from , but those who want Strength of Genius ...
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... Writings of our Authors . It may , perhaps , look like a very presumptuous Work , though not Foreign from the Duty of a SPECTATOR , to tax the Writings of such as have long had the general Applause of a Nation : But I shall always make ...
... Writings of our Authors . It may , perhaps , look like a very presumptuous Work , though not Foreign from the Duty of a SPECTATOR , to tax the Writings of such as have long had the general Applause of a Nation : But I shall always make ...
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