Essays: Biographical, Critical, and Historical; Illustrative of the Tatler, Spectator, and Guardian, Volume 2Suttaby, Evance, and Fox, 1814 - English literature |
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... spirits ; and oft it falls out , that while one thinks too much of his doing , hee leavs to do the effect of his thinking . Then spared hee not to remember , how much Arcadia was chang- ed since his youth : activitie and good fellowship ...
... spirits ; and oft it falls out , that while one thinks too much of his doing , hee leavs to do the effect of his thinking . Then spared hee not to remember , how much Arcadia was chang- ed since his youth : activitie and good fellowship ...
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... spirit and great power in what Burton says , when he writes from his own mind . " + 294 . Many modern authors have had recourse to Essayes or Counsels , civill and morall , 4to . 1632 , p . 292 , 293 , + Boswell's Life of Johnson , vol ...
... spirit and great power in what Burton says , when he writes from his own mind . " + 294 . Many modern authors have had recourse to Essayes or Counsels , civill and morall , 4to . 1632 , p . 292 , 293 , + Boswell's Life of Johnson , vol ...
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... spirit , the seeds of petrifaction and gorgon of itself . As sensible phylosophers conceive of the generation of ... spirits , able to make good their solidi ties , against the opposition and activity of out ward contraries : and so ...
... spirit , the seeds of petrifaction and gorgon of itself . As sensible phylosophers conceive of the generation of ... spirits , able to make good their solidi ties , against the opposition and activity of out ward contraries : and so ...
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... spirits of the beholding hearers and auricularie spectators , were so on a sudden seized upon , in the risible faculties of the soul , and all their vital motions so universally affected in this extremity of agitation , that , to avoid ...
... spirits of the beholding hearers and auricularie spectators , were so on a sudden seized upon , in the risible faculties of the soul , and all their vital motions so universally affected in this extremity of agitation , that , to avoid ...
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... spirit of sincerity and truth , his motives for the under- taking . The passage is forcible and eloquent , * Urquhart's Vindication of Scotland . and proves that for conscience sake alone , re , OF ENGLISH STYLE , & c . 31.
... spirit of sincerity and truth , his motives for the under- taking . The passage is forcible and eloquent , * Urquhart's Vindication of Scotland . and proves that for conscience sake alone , re , OF ENGLISH STYLE , & c . 31.
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