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... endeavoured to rectify and amend it , they needed not have sacrificed their good sense and virtue to their fame and reputa- tion . No man is so sunk in vice and ignorance , but there are still some hidden seeds of goodness and knowledge ...
... endeavoured to rectify and amend it , they needed not have sacrificed their good sense and virtue to their fame and reputa- tion . No man is so sunk in vice and ignorance , but there are still some hidden seeds of goodness and knowledge ...
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... seem stiff and unnatural ; he must not swell into a false sublime , by endeavouring to avoid the other extreme . Among the Greeks , Eschylus , and sometimes So- phocles , were guilty of this fault ; among the No. 285. ] 51 SPECTATOR .
... seem stiff and unnatural ; he must not swell into a false sublime , by endeavouring to avoid the other extreme . Among the Greeks , Eschylus , and sometimes So- phocles , were guilty of this fault ; among the No. 285. ] 51 SPECTATOR .
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... endeavoured to signalize themselves by works of this nature among our Eng- lish writers , are not only defective in the above - mentioned par- ticulars , but plainly discover by the phrases which they make use of , and by their confused ...
... endeavoured to signalize themselves by works of this nature among our Eng- lish writers , are not only defective in the above - mentioned par- ticulars , but plainly discover by the phrases which they make use of , and by their confused ...
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... endeavouring to enflame them with ridicule . I must also observe with Longinus , that the productions of a great genius , with many lapses and inadvertencies , are infinitely preferable to the works of an inferior kind of author , which ...
... endeavouring to enflame them with ridicule . I must also observe with Longinus , that the productions of a great genius , with many lapses and inadvertencies , are infinitely preferable to the works of an inferior kind of author , which ...
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... endeavoured to cure it by several expe- dients ; particulalry by the mortification which the great adver- ' The words in italics are added in accordance with the author's direc- tions in the fol . ed . of No. 315. Yet Tickell , who must ...
... endeavoured to cure it by several expe- dients ; particulalry by the mortification which the great adver- ' The words in italics are added in accordance with the author's direc- tions in the fol . ed . of No. 315. Yet Tickell , who must ...
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