The Spectator, Volume 3J. Sharpe, 1808 |
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... writing of this latter kind of fables . Spenser's Fairy - Queen is one continued series of them from the beginning to the end of that_admirable work . If we look into the finest prose - authors of antiquity , such as Cicero , Plato ...
... writing of this latter kind of fables . Spenser's Fairy - Queen is one continued series of them from the beginning to the end of that_admirable work . If we look into the finest prose - authors of antiquity , such as Cicero , Plato ...
Page 62
... writing , he would probably join them together after such a manner , that it would be impossible for the one to come ... write one myself in the spirit of that divine author . There were two families which from the begin- ning of the ...
... writing , he would probably join them together after such a manner , that it would be impossible for the one to come ... write one myself in the spirit of that divine author . There were two families which from the begin- ning of the ...
Page 66
... , that one of the most eminent pens in Grub - street is now em- Alluding to the time of the year generally occupied in the sittings : of parliament . ployed in writing the dream of this miraculous sleep- er 66 184 . SPECTATOR .
... , that one of the most eminent pens in Grub - street is now em- Alluding to the time of the year generally occupied in the sittings : of parliament . ployed in writing the dream of this miraculous sleep- er 66 184 . SPECTATOR .
Page 67
ployed in writing the dream of this miraculous sleep- er , which I hear will be of a more than ordinary length , as it must contain all the particulars that are supposed to have passed in his imagination during so long a sleep . He is ...
ployed in writing the dream of this miraculous sleep- er , which I hear will be of a more than ordinary length , as it must contain all the particulars that are supposed to have passed in his imagination during so long a sleep . He is ...
Page 76
... writing perplexing letters from un- known hands , and making all the young fellows in love with her , till they find out who she is . Thus , as before she gave torment by disguising her in- clination 76 187 .. SPECTATOR .
... writing perplexing letters from un- known hands , and making all the young fellows in love with her , till they find out who she is . Thus , as before she gave torment by disguising her in- clination 76 187 .. SPECTATOR .
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