The Spectator, Volume 2J. and R. Tonson, 1767 - English essays |
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... appear improbable to thofe who live at a distance from the fa fhionable world : but as it is a diftinction of a very fin- gular nature , and what perhaps may never meet with a parallel , I think I fhould not have difcharged the office ...
... appear improbable to thofe who live at a distance from the fa fhionable world : but as it is a diftinction of a very fin- gular nature , and what perhaps may never meet with a parallel , I think I fhould not have difcharged the office ...
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... appear more perfect than when it came fresh from the mafter's pencil . I could not forbear looking upon the face of this ancient workman , and immediately , by the long lock of hair upon his forehead , difcovered him to be Time ...
... appear more perfect than when it came fresh from the mafter's pencil . I could not forbear looking upon the face of this ancient workman , and immediately , by the long lock of hair upon his forehead , difcovered him to be Time ...
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... appear dreams or " fhort intervals of amusement , from this one affliction " which has feized my very being pardon me , oh " Pharamond , if my griefs give me leave , that I lay " before you , in the anguish of a wounded mind , that you ...
... appear dreams or " fhort intervals of amusement , from this one affliction " which has feized my very being pardon me , oh " Pharamond , if my griefs give me leave , that I lay " before you , in the anguish of a wounded mind , that you ...
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... appear ; for as no mortal author , in the ordinary fate and viciffitude of things , knows to what ufe his works may , fome time or other , be applied , a man may often meet with very celebrated names in a paper of tobacco . I have ...
... appear ; for as no mortal author , in the ordinary fate and viciffitude of things , knows to what ufe his works may , fome time or other , be applied , a man may often meet with very celebrated names in a paper of tobacco . I have ...
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... appear genuine and unaffected , they are able to move the mind of the most polite reader with inward meltings . of humanity and compaffion . The incidents grow out of the fubject , and are fuch as are the moft proper to excite pity ...
... appear genuine and unaffected , they are able to move the mind of the most polite reader with inward meltings . of humanity and compaffion . The incidents grow out of the fubject , and are fuch as are the moft proper to excite pity ...
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