Essays: Biographical, Critical, and Historical; Illustrative of the Tatler, Spectator, and Guardian, Volume 2Suttaby, Evance, and Fox, 1814 - English literature |
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... pleasure to some men , as dogs , or hawkes , when they draw their fish upon the banke , saith Nic . Hen- selius Silesiographie , cap . 3. speaking of that ex- traordinary delight his countrymen tooke in fishing , and in making of pooles ...
... pleasure to some men , as dogs , or hawkes , when they draw their fish upon the banke , saith Nic . Hen- selius Silesiographie , cap . 3. speaking of that ex- traordinary delight his countrymen tooke in fishing , and in making of pooles ...
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... pleasure , which a poore man for a good stipend would scarce be hired to undergoe . Plutarch in his booke de soler . animal . speakes against all fishing , as a filthy , base , illiberall imployment , having neither wit nor perspicacity ...
... pleasure , which a poore man for a good stipend would scarce be hired to undergoe . Plutarch in his booke de soler . animal . speakes against all fishing , as a filthy , base , illiberall imployment , having neither wit nor perspicacity ...
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... pleasures of fancy and of taste , he embraced a task which might expose him to obloquy and reproach . " Concerning this wayward subject against prelaty , " he remarks , " the touching whereof is so distasteful and disquietous to a ...
... pleasures of fancy and of taste , he embraced a task which might expose him to obloquy and reproach . " Concerning this wayward subject against prelaty , " he remarks , " the touching whereof is so distasteful and disquietous to a ...
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... pleasure , and time enough to pencil it over with all the curious touches of art , even to the perfection of a faultless picture ; when , as in this argument , the not deferring is of great mo- ment to the good speeding , that if ...
... pleasure , and time enough to pencil it over with all the curious touches of art , even to the perfection of a faultless picture ; when , as in this argument , the not deferring is of great mo- ment to the good speeding , that if ...
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... pleasures and utility : " The first wish of Virgil was , to be a good philosopher ; the second , a good husbandman ; and God ( whom he seemed to understand better than most of the most learned heathens ) dealt with him just as he did ...
... pleasures and utility : " The first wish of Virgil was , to be a good philosopher ; the second , a good husbandman ; and God ( whom he seemed to understand better than most of the most learned heathens ) dealt with him just as he did ...
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