The Spectator ..Peter Wilson, 1755 |
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... find that the intention of my last Tuesday's paper has been mistaken by many of my rea- ders . I did not defign so much to expose vice as idle- nefs , ness , and aimed at those persons who pass away 10 No 323 THE SPECTATOR .
... find that the intention of my last Tuesday's paper has been mistaken by many of my rea- ders . I did not defign so much to expose vice as idle- nefs , ness , and aimed at those persons who pass away 10 No 323 THE SPECTATOR .
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ness , and aimed at those persons who pass away their time rather in trifle and impertinence , than in crimes and immoralities . Offences of this latter kind are not to be dallied with , or treated in so ludicrous a manner . In short ...
ness , and aimed at those persons who pass away their time rather in trifle and impertinence , than in crimes and immoralities . Offences of this latter kind are not to be dallied with , or treated in so ludicrous a manner . In short ...
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... ness , ingratiated himself both with Philip and his pu- pil , and became the fecond man at court , by calling the • King Peleus , the Prince Achilles , and himself Phænix . It is no wonder if Alexander having been thus used not only to ...
... ness , ingratiated himself both with Philip and his pu- pil , and became the fecond man at court , by calling the • King Peleus , the Prince Achilles , and himself Phænix . It is no wonder if Alexander having been thus used not only to ...
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... ness . Whether this were no more than an effect of • the Knight's peculiar humanity , pleased to find at laft , that after all the tragical doings every thing was safe ، and ، 6 6 6 6 6 < 6 ، ، and well 74 THE SPECTATOR . N ° 338.
... ness . Whether this were no more than an effect of • the Knight's peculiar humanity , pleased to find at laft , that after all the tragical doings every thing was safe ، and ، 6 6 6 6 6 < 6 ، ، and well 74 THE SPECTATOR . N ° 338.
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... ness in confufion ; the seventh affects the imagination like the ocean in a calm , and fills the mind of the rea- der , without producing in it any thing like tumult or agitation . D3 The The critic above - mentioned , among the rules ...
... ness in confufion ; the seventh affects the imagination like the ocean in a calm , and fills the mind of the rea- der , without producing in it any thing like tumult or agitation . D3 The The critic above - mentioned , among the rules ...
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