The Spectator, Volume 5William Durell and Company, 1810 - English literature |
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Page 59
... expression of a young fellow who stood near me , that called the boxes those beds of tulips . It was a pretty varia tion of the prospect , when any one of those fine la dies rose up and did honor to herself and friend at a distance by ...
... expression of a young fellow who stood near me , that called the boxes those beds of tulips . It was a pretty varia tion of the prospect , when any one of those fine la dies rose up and did honor to herself and friend at a distance by ...
Page 64
... expressions , as if there was something in it that was not fit to be spoken before a company of ladies . Upon which the matron of the assembly , who was dressed in a cherry - colored hood , commended the discretion of the writer , for ...
... expressions , as if there was something in it that was not fit to be spoken before a company of ladies . Upon which the matron of the assembly , who was dressed in a cherry - colored hood , commended the discretion of the writer , for ...
Page 121
... expressions in the mouth of a pretender of this sort . It is a professed maxim with these peo- ple never to think there is something so solemn in reflection , they , forsooth , can never give themselves time for such a way of employing ...
... expressions in the mouth of a pretender of this sort . It is a professed maxim with these peo- ple never to think there is something so solemn in reflection , they , forsooth , can never give themselves time for such a way of employing ...
Page 129
... expression , without falling into such ways of speech as may seem stiff and unnatural ; he must not swell into a false sublime , by endeavoring to avoid the other extreme . Among the Greeks , Eschylus , and sometimes Sophocles , were ...
... expression , without falling into such ways of speech as may seem stiff and unnatural ; he must not swell into a false sublime , by endeavoring to avoid the other extreme . Among the Greeks , Eschylus , and sometimes Sophocles , were ...
Page 132
... expression are indispensably necessary to support the style , and keep it from fall- ing into the flatness of prose . Those who have not a taste for this elevation of style , and are apt to ridicule a poet when he departs from the ...
... expression are indispensably necessary to support the style , and keep it from fall- ing into the flatness of prose . Those who have not a taste for this elevation of style , and are apt to ridicule a poet when he departs from the ...
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