Essays: Biographical, Critical, and Historical; Illustrative of the Tatler, Spectator, and Guardian, Volume 2Suttaby, Evance, and Fox, 1814 - English literature |
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... equal desert both of praise and dispraise , shunned by some , by others desired . So that absolutely we cannot discommend , we cannot absolutely approve , eis , ther willingness to live , or forwardness to die . And concerning the ways ...
... equal desert both of praise and dispraise , shunned by some , by others desired . So that absolutely we cannot discommend , we cannot absolutely approve , eis , ther willingness to live , or forwardness to die . And concerning the ways ...
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... equal auditor , if I can but say successfully , that which in this exigent behoves me , although I would be heard , only if it might be , by the ele gant and learned reader , to whom principally for a while I shall beg leave I may ...
... equal auditor , if I can but say successfully , that which in this exigent behoves me , although I would be heard , only if it might be , by the ele gant and learned reader , to whom principally for a while I shall beg leave I may ...
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... equal diligence and incli nation , to present the like offer in our antient stories . Or whether those dramatic constitutions , wherein Sophocles and Euripides reign , shall be found more doctrinal and exemplary to a nation -Or , if ...
... equal diligence and incli nation , to present the like offer in our antient stories . Or whether those dramatic constitutions , wherein Sophocles and Euripides reign , shall be found more doctrinal and exemplary to a nation -Or , if ...
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... equal , whoever thou art , in nature , and thy peer in condition : I say not , in the uncertain and unstable gifts of for- tune , not in this worldly state , which is very in- considerable ; but in gifts vastly more precious , in title ...
... equal , whoever thou art , in nature , and thy peer in condition : I say not , in the uncertain and unstable gifts of for- tune , not in this worldly state , which is very in- considerable ; but in gifts vastly more precious , in title ...
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... equal purity aud simplicity . SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE seems , like Montagne , to have poured his whole heart into his writings , and both his sentiments and diction possess a pe- culiar and indescribable charm . To the compo- sition of no ...
... equal purity aud simplicity . SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE seems , like Montagne , to have poured his whole heart into his writings , and both his sentiments and diction possess a pe- culiar and indescribable charm . To the compo- sition of no ...
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