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... consider the Language of this great poet , we must allow what I have hinted in a former paper , that it is often too much laboured , and sometimes obscured by old words , transpositions , and foreign idioms . SENECA's objection to the ...
... consider the Language of this great poet , we must allow what I have hinted in a former paper , that it is often too much laboured , and sometimes obscured by old words , transpositions , and foreign idioms . SENECA's objection to the ...
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... which she made in my family ; but she told me , I was no longer to consider myself as Sir JOHN ANVIL , but as her husband ; and added with a frown , frown , that I did not seem to know who 26 THE SPECTATOR . NO . 299 .
... which she made in my family ; but she told me , I was no longer to consider myself as Sir JOHN ANVIL , but as her husband ; and added with a frown , frown , that I did not seem to know who 26 THE SPECTATOR . NO . 299 .
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... consider there was some difference between his mother and mine , She is perpetually finding out the features of her own relations in every one of my children , though by the way , I have a little chub - faced boy as like me as he ' can ...
... consider there was some difference between his mother and mine , She is perpetually finding out the features of her own relations in every one of my children , though by the way , I have a little chub - faced boy as like me as he ' can ...
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... considering that his memory is impaired , and that he hath lost that life , and those spirits , which formerly raised his fancy , and fired his imagination . The same folly hinders a man from submitting his behaviour to his age , and ...
... considering that his memory is impaired , and that he hath lost that life , and those spirits , which formerly raised his fancy , and fired his imagination . The same folly hinders a man from submitting his behaviour to his age , and ...
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... consider of a dream which seems too extraordinary to be without a meaning . x I am , MADAM , With the greatest passion , Your most obedient , Most humble servant , & c . * No. 302 . FRIDAY , FEBRUARY 15 , 1711-12 . NO . 301 . THE ...
... consider of a dream which seems too extraordinary to be without a meaning . x I am , MADAM , With the greatest passion , Your most obedient , Most humble servant , & c . * No. 302 . FRIDAY , FEBRUARY 15 , 1711-12 . NO . 301 . THE ...
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