The Spectator, Volume 5William Durell and Company, 1810 - English literature |
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... character , and describe the stature , the behavior , and aspect of the Duke of Marlbo- rough , I question not but it would fill the reader with more agreeable images , and give him a more delightful entertainment , than what can be ...
... character , and describe the stature , the behavior , and aspect of the Duke of Marlbo- rough , I question not but it would fill the reader with more agreeable images , and give him a more delightful entertainment , than what can be ...
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... character which , if it does not recommend you as it ought to benevolence among those whom you live with , yet has ... characters which they neither become , nor act in with pleasure to themselves or their beholders . But to return to my ...
... character which , if it does not recommend you as it ought to benevolence among those whom you live with , yet has ... characters which they neither become , nor act in with pleasure to themselves or their beholders . But to return to my ...
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... character of Sir Roger , as silly as it really is , has done more towards the disparagement of holy orders , and conse- quently of virtue itself , than all the wit that author or any other could make up for in the conduct of the longest ...
... character of Sir Roger , as silly as it really is , has done more towards the disparagement of holy orders , and conse- quently of virtue itself , than all the wit that author or any other could make up for in the conduct of the longest ...
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... character of Mrs. Jane , whom I will not hide under a borrowed name ; but let you know that this creature has been , since I knew her , very handsome , ( though I will not allow her even she has been for the future , ) and , during the ...
... character of Mrs. Jane , whom I will not hide under a borrowed name ; but let you know that this creature has been , since I knew her , very handsome , ( though I will not allow her even she has been for the future , ) and , during the ...
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... characters . Homer has excelled all the heroic poets that ever wrote , in the multitude and variety of his characters . Every god that is admitted into his poem , acts a part which would have been suitable to no other deity . His ...
... characters . Homer has excelled all the heroic poets that ever wrote , in the multitude and variety of his characters . Every god that is admitted into his poem , acts a part which would have been suitable to no other deity . His ...
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