“The” Spectator ...J. Wood, 1761 |
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Page 12
... admire . FOR this reafon I think there is nothing in the world fo tirefome as the works of thofe critics , who write in ... admired in an ancient poet . The reader may obferve the following lines in the fame view , A needlefs A needlefs ...
... admire . FOR this reafon I think there is nothing in the world fo tirefome as the works of thofe critics , who write in ... admired in an ancient poet . The reader may obferve the following lines in the fame view , A needlefs A needlefs ...
Page 18
... admiration of the world , and to diftinguish themselves from the rest of mankind ! Providence for the most part fets us upon a level , and obferves a kind of proportion in its difpenfations to- wards us .. If it renders us perfect in ...
... admiration of the world , and to diftinguish themselves from the rest of mankind ! Providence for the most part fets us upon a level , and obferves a kind of proportion in its difpenfations to- wards us .. If it renders us perfect in ...
Page 23
... Admiration is a very fhort- lived paffion , that immediately decays upon growing fami- liar with its object , unless it be still fed with fresh disco- . veries , and kept alive by a new perpetual fucceffion of mi- , racles rifing up to ...
... Admiration is a very fhort- lived paffion , that immediately decays upon growing fami- liar with its object , unless it be still fed with fresh disco- . veries , and kept alive by a new perpetual fucceffion of mi- , racles rifing up to ...
Page 64
... admire in the Spa- nish Fryar , or the Double Discovery , where the two dif ferent plots look like counterparts and copies of one another . THE fecond qualification required in the action of an epic poem , is , that it fhould be an ...
... admire in the Spa- nish Fryar , or the Double Discovery , where the two dif ferent plots look like counterparts and copies of one another . THE fecond qualification required in the action of an epic poem , is , that it fhould be an ...
Page 78
... admired in them the beauty of my own performances . But I fhall leave thefe wife conjecturers to their own imagina- tions , and produce the three following letters for the en- tertainment of the day . < < " " " .4 SIR , I WAS laft ...
... admired in them the beauty of my own performances . But I fhall leave thefe wife conjecturers to their own imagina- tions , and produce the three following letters for the en- tertainment of the day . < < " " " .4 SIR , I WAS laft ...
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