The Spectator ..Peter Wilson, 1755 |
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... nature to your perusal . You are so thoroughly acquainted with the characters of men , and all the parts of human life , that it is impossible for the least mifrepresentation of them to efcape your notice . It is your lordship's ...
... nature to your perusal . You are so thoroughly acquainted with the characters of men , and all the parts of human life , that it is impossible for the least mifrepresentation of them to efcape your notice . It is your lordship's ...
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... natural innocence , not- withstanding it might have been more pleasing to the generality of readers , I should not have published it : but as it is only the picture of a life filled with a fashio- nable kind of gaiety and laziness , I ...
... natural innocence , not- withstanding it might have been more pleasing to the generality of readers , I should not have published it : but as it is only the picture of a life filled with a fashio- nable kind of gaiety and laziness , I ...
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... nature ; but I add it here , that the reader may observe at the same view , how amiable ignorance may be when it is shewn in its fimplicities , and how detestable in barbari- ties . It is written by an honest countryman to his mistress ...
... nature ; but I add it here , that the reader may observe at the same view , how amiable ignorance may be when it is shewn in its fimplicities , and how detestable in barbari- ties . It is written by an honest countryman to his mistress ...
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... natural mirrours , as it feems to bear some relation to the following letter , which I received the day before . SIR , I Have read your last Saturday's observations on the fourth book of Milton with great fatisfaction , and am ...
... natural mirrours , as it feems to bear some relation to the following letter , which I received the day before . SIR , I Have read your last Saturday's observations on the fourth book of Milton with great fatisfaction , and am ...
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... nature , had the not been led off to a man . If you think fit to fet down the whole passage from Milton , your • readers will be able to judge for themselves , and the quotation will not a little contribute to the filling up of your ...
... nature , had the not been led off to a man . If you think fit to fet down the whole passage from Milton , your • readers will be able to judge for themselves , and the quotation will not a little contribute to the filling up of your ...
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