The Spectator ..Peter Wilson, 1755 |
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... passion I then first discovered in him , he threw the papers into the fire , swearing that since he was not to read them , the man who writ them should never be • so happy as to have me read them over again . It is infignificant to tell ...
... passion I then first discovered in him , he threw the papers into the fire , swearing that since he was not to read them , the man who writ them should never be • so happy as to have me read them over again . It is infignificant to tell ...
Page 18
... passion move ? What kindled in thee this unpitied love ? Thy own warm blush within the water glows ; With thee the colour'd shadow comes and goes ; Its empty being on thyself relies ; Step thou afide , and the frail charmer dies . W ...
... passion move ? What kindled in thee this unpitied love ? Thy own warm blush within the water glows ; With thee the colour'd shadow comes and goes ; Its empty being on thyself relies ; Step thou afide , and the frail charmer dies . W ...
Page 42
... passion he ⚫ did not believe I was fit for it , but only my mafter had a mind to make him think I had got a great way in my learning . I am fometimes a month behind other boys * in getting the books my mafter gives orders for . All the ...
... passion he ⚫ did not believe I was fit for it , but only my mafter had a mind to make him think I had got a great way in my learning . I am fometimes a month behind other boys * in getting the books my mafter gives orders for . All the ...
Page 70
... passion for Homer ; but I lately met with a passage in Plutarch which , if • I am not very much mistaken , still gives us a clearer light into the motives of this action . Plutarch tells us , • that Alexander in his youth had a mafter ...
... passion for Homer ; but I lately met with a passage in Plutarch which , if • I am not very much mistaken , still gives us a clearer light into the motives of this action . Plutarch tells us , • that Alexander in his youth had a mafter ...
Page 75
... passion , which all generous minds con- ' ceive at the fight of virtue in distress . The impref- fion , believe me , Sir , was so strong upon me , that I am perfuaded if I had been let alone in it , I could at an extremity have ventured ...
... passion , which all generous minds con- ' ceive at the fight of virtue in distress . The impref- fion , believe me , Sir , was so strong upon me , that I am perfuaded if I had been let alone in it , I could at an extremity have ventured ...
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