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... nature and to glory ; and your Grace may make that reflection with much more . juftice . He fpoke it after he had arrived at empire , by an ufurpation upon those whom he had inflaved ; but the prince of Mindlebeim may rejoice in a ...
... nature and to glory ; and your Grace may make that reflection with much more . juftice . He fpoke it after he had arrived at empire , by an ufurpation upon those whom he had inflaved ; but the prince of Mindlebeim may rejoice in a ...
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... of affection is carried on by the eye only ; that good breeding has made the tongue falfify the heart , and act a part of continual constraint , while nature has pre- " < 4 ferved " ; ferved the eyes to herself , that she THE ...
... of affection is carried on by the eye only ; that good breeding has made the tongue falfify the heart , and act a part of continual constraint , while nature has pre- " < 4 ferved " ; ferved the eyes to herself , that she THE ...
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... nature into a very fine poem , I mean The Art of Criticism , which was published some months fince , and is a mafter - piece in its kind . The obfervations follow one another like thofe in Horace's Art of Poetry , without that ...
... nature into a very fine poem , I mean The Art of Criticism , which was published some months fince , and is a mafter - piece in its kind . The obfervations follow one another like thofe in Horace's Art of Poetry , without that ...
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... confidered abftractedly from its paffions , is Tof a remifs and fedentary nature , flow in it refolves , and languishing in its executions . The ufe therefore of a B 3 the the paffions is to ftir it up , and to No. 255 . 17 THE SPECTATOR .
... confidered abftractedly from its paffions , is Tof a remifs and fedentary nature , flow in it refolves , and languishing in its executions . The ufe therefore of a B 3 the the paffions is to ftir it up , and to No. 255 . 17 THE SPECTATOR .
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... natural inclinations in a glo- rious and laudable courfe of action . For we may farther obferve , that men of the greatest abilities are most fired with ambition ; and that , on the contrary , mean and nar- row , minds are the least ...
... natural inclinations in a glo- rious and laudable courfe of action . For we may farther obferve , that men of the greatest abilities are most fired with ambition ; and that , on the contrary , mean and nar- row , minds are the least ...
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