The Spectator: With Sketches of the Lives of the Authors, an Index, and Explanatory Notes, Volume 6James Crissy, 1832 - Spectator |
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... person were not the only pre - eminence you have above others , which is left , almost unobserved , by greater writers . Yet how pleasing would it be to those who shall read the surprising revolutions in your sto- ry , to be made ...
... person were not the only pre - eminence you have above others , which is left , almost unobserved , by greater writers . Yet how pleasing would it be to those who shall read the surprising revolutions in your sto- ry , to be made ...
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... person shall be so too , that the Author and Disposer of all things may place you in that higher mansion of bliss and immortality which is prepared for good princes , lawgivers , and he- roes , when HE , in his due time , removes them ...
... person shall be so too , that the Author and Disposer of all things may place you in that higher mansion of bliss and immortality which is prepared for good princes , lawgivers , and he- roes , when HE , in his due time , removes them ...
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... person , but that she did not know his name . I immediately went down to him , and found him to be the coachman of my worthy friend Sir Roger de Coverley . He told me that his master came to town last night , and would be glad to take a ...
... person , but that she did not know his name . I immediately went down to him , and found him to be the coachman of my worthy friend Sir Roger de Coverley . He told me that his master came to town last night , and would be glad to take a ...
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... persons of beautiful women , or warming myself into ambition from the successes of other men , this world is not only a mere scene , but a very pleasant one . Did mankind but know the free- dom which there is in keeping thus aloof from ...
... persons of beautiful women , or warming myself into ambition from the successes of other men , this world is not only a mere scene , but a very pleasant one . Did mankind but know the free- dom which there is in keeping thus aloof from ...
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... person who speaks or acts , without seeing his name at the head of it . Homer does not only outshine all other poets in the variety , but also in the novelty of his cha- racters . He has introduced among his Grecian princes a person who ...
... person who speaks or acts , without seeing his name at the head of it . Homer does not only outshine all other poets in the variety , but also in the novelty of his cha- racters . He has introduced among his Grecian princes a person who ...
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