The Spectator, Volume 4J. and R. Tonson, 1767 |
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... fame nature , and each of them a mafter - piece in its kind ; the effay on tranflated verfe , the effay on the art of poetry , and the effay upon criticism . N ° 254 Friday , December 21 . Σεμνὸς ἔρως ἀρετῆς , ὁ δὲ κυπρίδῳ ἄσχος ὀβέλλει ...
... fame nature , and each of them a mafter - piece in its kind ; the effay on tranflated verfe , the effay on the art of poetry , and the effay upon criticism . N ° 254 Friday , December 21 . Σεμνὸς ἔρως ἀρετῆς , ὁ δὲ κυπρίδῳ ἄσχος ὀβέλλει ...
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... fame , by which great endowments are not fuffered to lie idle and useless to the public , and many vicious men , over - reached , as it were , and engag- ed contrary to their natural inclinations in a glorious nd laudable course of ...
... fame , by which great endowments are not fuffered to lie idle and useless to the public , and many vicious men , over - reached , as it were , and engag- ed contrary to their natural inclinations in a glorious nd laudable course of ...
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... fame , or that he has not enough range of thought to look out for any good which does not more immediately relate to his intereft or convenience , or that Providence , in the very frame of his foul , would not fubject him to fuch a ...
... fame , or that he has not enough range of thought to look out for any good which does not more immediately relate to his intereft or convenience , or that Providence , in the very frame of his foul , would not fubject him to fuch a ...
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... fame naturally betrays the ambitious man into fuch indecencies , as are a leffening to his reputation . He is ftill afraid left any of his actions fhould be thrown away in private , left his de- ferts fhould be concealed from the notice ...
... fame naturally betrays the ambitious man into fuch indecencies , as are a leffening to his reputation . He is ftill afraid left any of his actions fhould be thrown away in private , left his de- ferts fhould be concealed from the notice ...
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... fame , which we could not be prompted to by a difinterested love to mankind , or by a generous paffion for the glory of him that made us . Thus is fame a thing difficult to be obtained by all , but particularly by those who thirst after ...
... fame , which we could not be prompted to by a difinterested love to mankind , or by a generous paffion for the glory of him that made us . Thus is fame a thing difficult to be obtained by all , but particularly by those who thirst after ...
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