The Spectator ..Peter Wilson, 1755 |
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Page 74
... writer ) like a forest of cedars with their heads reaching to the clouds . He fo warmed and animated the people against this monftrous orna → ment , that it lay under a kind of perfecution ; and when- ever it appeared in publick was ...
... writer ) like a forest of cedars with their heads reaching to the clouds . He fo warmed and animated the people against this monftrous orna → ment , that it lay under a kind of perfecution ; and when- ever it appeared in publick was ...
Page 82
... write recentibus odiis ( as Tacitus expreffes it ) with the paffions and pre- judices of a cotemporary author , but make an impartial diftribution of fame among the great men of the pre- . fent age . I cannot I cannot forbear ...
... write recentibus odiis ( as Tacitus expreffes it ) with the paffions and pre- judices of a cotemporary author , but make an impartial diftribution of fame among the great men of the pre- . fent age . I cannot I cannot forbear ...
Page 88
... write as well , And ( not without much pains ) be undeceiv'd . M 240 ROSCOMMON . Y friend the divine having been afed with words of complaifance ( which he thinks could be pro- perly applied to no one living , and I think could be only ...
... write as well , And ( not without much pains ) be undeceiv'd . M 240 ROSCOMMON . Y friend the divine having been afed with words of complaifance ( which he thinks could be pro- perly applied to no one living , and I think could be only ...
Page 110
... writing and looking as it were ano- ⚫ther way , like an easy writer , or a fonneteer : He was one of thofe that had too much wit to know how to live in the world ; he was a man of no juftice , but • great good manners ; he ruined every ...
... writing and looking as it were ano- ⚫ther way , like an easy writer , or a fonneteer : He was one of thofe that had too much wit to know how to live in the world ; he was a man of no juftice , but • great good manners ; he ruined every ...
Page 130
... writing philofoper enough to conclude with Mr. Cowley , If e'er ambition did my fancy cheats . With any wifh fo mean as to be great .; Continue , beav'n , ftill from me to remove . The humble bleffings of that life I love . TE N ° 115 ...
... writing philofoper enough to conclude with Mr. Cowley , If e'er ambition did my fancy cheats . With any wifh fo mean as to be great .; Continue , beav'n , ftill from me to remove . The humble bleffings of that life I love . TE N ° 115 ...
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