The Spectator, Volume 5William Durell and Company, 1810 - English essays |
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... passages of your life , which are celebrated by the whole age , and have been the subject of the most sublime pens ; but if I could convey you to posterity in your pri- vate character , and describe the stature , the behavior , and ...
... passages of your life , which are celebrated by the whole age , and have been the subject of the most sublime pens ; but if I could convey you to posterity in your pri- vate character , and describe the stature , the behavior , and ...
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... passages are no longer such , but mutual love gives an importance to the most indifferent things , and a merit to actions the most insignificant . When we look round the world , and observe the many misun- derstandings which are created ...
... passages are no longer such , but mutual love gives an importance to the most indifferent things , and a merit to actions the most insignificant . When we look round the world , and observe the many misun- derstandings which are created ...
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... myself outrageously good , I shall turn to a -scene in one of Fletcher's plays , where this charac- ter is drawn , and the economy of whoredom most This admirably described . The passage I would point to is 40 No. 266 . THE SPECTATOR .
... myself outrageously good , I shall turn to a -scene in one of Fletcher's plays , where this charac- ter is drawn , and the economy of whoredom most This admirably described . The passage I would point to is 40 No. 266 . THE SPECTATOR .
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Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele. admirably described . The passage I would point to is in the third scene of the second act of the Humor- ous Lieutenant . Leucippe , who is agent for the king's lust , and ... passage I would point to ...
Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele. admirably described . The passage I would point to is in the third scene of the second act of the Humor- ous Lieutenant . Leucippe , who is agent for the king's lust , and ... passage I would point to ...
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... passages . One of them extended itself to a bundle of sonnets and little musical instruments ; others ended in several bladders , which were filled either with wind or froth . But the large canal entered into a great cavity of the skull ...
... passages . One of them extended itself to a bundle of sonnets and little musical instruments ; others ended in several bladders , which were filled either with wind or froth . But the large canal entered into a great cavity of the skull ...
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