The Spectator ..Peter Wilson, 1755 |
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Page 14
... confider what a pretty figure fhe would make among pofterity , were the hiftory of her whole life published like thefe five days of it . I fhall conclude my paper with an epitaph written by an uncertain author on Sir Philip Sidney's ...
... confider what a pretty figure fhe would make among pofterity , were the hiftory of her whole life published like thefe five days of it . I fhall conclude my paper with an epitaph written by an uncertain author on Sir Philip Sidney's ...
Page 31
... confider the fall of man in its immediate beginning , as proceeding from the refolutions taken in the infernal council , or in its more remote beginning , as proceeding from the firft revolt of the angels in heaven . The occafion which ...
... confider the fall of man in its immediate beginning , as proceeding from the refolutions taken in the infernal council , or in its more remote beginning , as proceeding from the firft revolt of the angels in heaven . The occafion which ...
Page 35
... confider · • what a paradox I undertook to maintain in the beginning of my epiftle , and which manifeftly appears to be but too melancholy a truth . And now I heartily wish the relation I have given of my misfortunes , may be : of ufe ...
... confider · • what a paradox I undertook to maintain in the beginning of my epiftle , and which manifeftly appears to be but too melancholy a truth . And now I heartily wish the relation I have given of my misfortunes , may be : of ufe ...
Page 42
... confider and pity my cafe , I will pray for your profperity as long as I live . " • · " · " " T London , March 2 , 17r . Your humble fer vant , James Difcipulus . ✡ No 331 $ 890000386 Thurfday , March 20 . 42 N ° 33 . THE SPECTATOR .
... confider and pity my cafe , I will pray for your profperity as long as I live . " • · " · " " T London , March 2 , 17r . Your humble fer vant , James Difcipulus . ✡ No 331 $ 890000386 Thurfday , March 20 . 42 N ° 33 . THE SPECTATOR .
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... confider with what judgment Milton , in this narration , has avoided every thing that is mean and trivial in the defcriptions of the Latin and Greek poets ; and at the fame time improved every great hint which he met with in their works ...
... confider with what judgment Milton , in this narration , has avoided every thing that is mean and trivial in the defcriptions of the Latin and Greek poets ; and at the fame time improved every great hint which he met with in their works ...
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