The Spectator, Volume 5Alexander Chalmers E. Sargeant, M. & W. Ward, Munroe, Francis & Parker, and Edward Cotton, Boston, 1810 - English essays |
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... nature are incapable of any outward representation ; many silent per- fections in the soul of a good man , which are great ornaments to human nature , but not able to discover themselves to the knowledge of others ; they are transacted ...
... nature are incapable of any outward representation ; many silent per- fections in the soul of a good man , which are great ornaments to human nature , but not able to discover themselves to the knowledge of others ; they are transacted ...
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... natural , we should , with Horace , impute to a pardonable inadvertency , or to the weakness of human nature , which cannot attend to each minute particular , and give the last finishing to every circumstance in so long a work . The ...
... natural , we should , with Horace , impute to a pardonable inadvertency , or to the weakness of human nature , which cannot attend to each minute particular , and give the last finishing to every circumstance in so long a work . The ...
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... nature of an heroic poem . Those who are acquainted with Homer's and Virgil's way of writing , cannot but be pleased with this kind of structure in Milton's similitudes . I am the more particular on this head , because ignorant readers ...
... nature of an heroic poem . Those who are acquainted with Homer's and Virgil's way of writing , cannot but be pleased with this kind of structure in Milton's similitudes . I am the more particular on this head , because ignorant readers ...
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VOL V | 25 |
LETTER from a Coquette to a new mar | 254 |
Letters from an old Bachelorfrom Lovers | 260 |
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