“The” Spectator ...J. Wood, 1761 |
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... manner very beauti- fully defcribed in the characters of Horace , Fetronius , Quintilian , and Longinus , as they are drawn in the essay of which I am now speaking . SINCE I have mentioned Longinus , who in his reflec- tions has given ...
... manner very beauti- fully defcribed in the characters of Horace , Fetronius , Quintilian , and Longinus , as they are drawn in the essay of which I am now speaking . SINCE I have mentioned Longinus , who in his reflec- tions has given ...
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... manner as to check any thing that tends to the corruption of manners , or which is too mean and tri- vial for the entertainment of reafonable creatures . As to the diverfions of this kind in this town , we owe them to the arts of poetry ...
... manner as to check any thing that tends to the corruption of manners , or which is too mean and tri- vial for the entertainment of reafonable creatures . As to the diverfions of this kind in this town , we owe them to the arts of poetry ...
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... manner , that all Englishmen who have any skill in mufic may be furthered in it for their profit or diver- fion by what new things we fhall produce ; never pretending to furpass others , or afferting that any thing which is a fcience is ...
... manner , that all Englishmen who have any skill in mufic may be furthered in it for their profit or diver- fion by what new things we fhall produce ; never pretending to furpass others , or afferting that any thing which is a fcience is ...
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... manners , he is the fame civil per- fon he ever was : he will venture his neck to bow out of a coach in full speed , at once to fhew he is full of business , and yet is not fo taken up as to forget his old friend . With a man who is not ...
... manners , he is the fame civil per- fon he ever was : he will venture his neck to bow out of a coach in full speed , at once to fhew he is full of business , and yet is not fo taken up as to forget his old friend . With a man who is not ...
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... manners are as natural to them as his de- lights , method of thinking , and mode of living , were formerly to him and his friends . But the mifchief is , he looks upon the fame kind of errors which he himself was guilty of with an eye ...
... manners are as natural to them as his de- lights , method of thinking , and mode of living , were formerly to him and his friends . But the mifchief is , he looks upon the fame kind of errors which he himself was guilty of with an eye ...
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