“The” Spectator ...J. Wood, 1761 |
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... those who fhall read the furprizing revolutions . in your ftory , to be made acquainted with your ordinary life and deportment ? How pleafing would it be to hear that the fame man , who had carried fire and fword into the countries of ...
... those who fhall read the furprizing revolutions . in your ftory , to be made acquainted with your ordinary life and deportment ? How pleafing would it be to hear that the fame man , who had carried fire and fword into the countries of ...
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... those whom he had inflaved ; but the prince of Mindlebeim may rejoice in a fovereignty which was the gift of him whofe dominions he had preserved . GLORY eftablished upon the uninter- rupted fuccefs of honourable defigns and actions ...
... those whom he had inflaved ; but the prince of Mindlebeim may rejoice in a fovereignty which was the gift of him whofe dominions he had preserved . GLORY eftablished upon the uninter- rupted fuccefs of honourable defigns and actions ...
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... those who come to be feen ? I am a woman turned of thirty , and am on the obfervation a little ' therefore if you or your correfpondent had confulted me in your difcourfe on the eye , I could have told you , that the eye of Leonora is ...
... those who come to be feen ? I am a woman turned of thirty , and am on the obfervation a little ' therefore if you or your correfpondent had confulted me in your difcourfe on the eye , I could have told you , that the eye of Leonora is ...
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... those who are converfant in poetry , it is very natural for fuch as have not fucceeded in it to depretiate the works of those who have . For fince they cannot raise themselves to the reputation of their fellow - writers , they must ...
... those who are converfant in poetry , it is very natural for fuch as have not fucceeded in it to depretiate the works of those who have . For fince they cannot raise themselves to the reputation of their fellow - writers , they must ...
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... those beautiful lines of Sir John Denham , in his poem on Fletcher's works ! But whither am I ftray'd ? I need not raife Trophies to thee from other men's difpraife : Nor is thy fame on leffer ruins built , Nor needs thy jufter title ...
... those beautiful lines of Sir John Denham , in his poem on Fletcher's works ! But whither am I ftray'd ? I need not raife Trophies to thee from other men's difpraife : Nor is thy fame on leffer ruins built , Nor needs thy jufter title ...
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