The Spectator ..Peter Wilson, 1755 |
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... , that even those , who would mifrepresent your , generous designs for the publick good , cannot but approve the steadiness and intrepidity with which you A 2 a pursue pursue them . It is a most sensible pleasure to DEDICATION .
... , that even those , who would mifrepresent your , generous designs for the publick good , cannot but approve the steadiness and intrepidity with which you A 2 a pursue pursue them . It is a most sensible pleasure to DEDICATION .
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pursue them . It is a most sensible pleasure to me that I have this opportunity of profeffing myself one of your great admirers , and , in a very particular manner , My LORD , Your Lordship's most obliged , and most obedient , Humble ...
pursue them . It is a most sensible pleasure to me that I have this opportunity of profeffing myself one of your great admirers , and , in a very particular manner , My LORD , Your Lordship's most obliged , and most obedient , Humble ...
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... pleasure than the had ever done before , the returned the box with a fmile , telling him , she could not but admire at his choice . WILL fancying that his story took , immediately fell into a differtation on the usefulness of looking ...
... pleasure than the had ever done before , the returned the box with a fmile , telling him , she could not but admire at his choice . WILL fancying that his story took , immediately fell into a differtation on the usefulness of looking ...
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... pleasure we receive in being agreeable to each other in ordinary life , that one would with dancing were ge- nerally understood as conducive as it really is to a proper deportment in matters that appear the most remote from it . A man ...
... pleasure we receive in being agreeable to each other in ordinary life , that one would with dancing were ge- nerally understood as conducive as it really is to a proper deportment in matters that appear the most remote from it . A man ...
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... pleasure and inftruction pro- • duc'd from it : and also lay down some fundamental ' rules , which might so tend to the improvement of its profeffors , and information of the spectators , that the • first might be the better enabled to ...
... pleasure and inftruction pro- • duc'd from it : and also lay down some fundamental ' rules , which might so tend to the improvement of its profeffors , and information of the spectators , that the • first might be the better enabled to ...
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Adam Æneid agreeable alſo angels anſwer appear beautiful becauſe behaviour beſt buſineſs cauſe character chearfulness confider confideration converſation defire deſcribed deſcription deſign diſcourſe endeavour eſteem eyes faid fame fays feveral fince firſt parents fome foon fublime fuch gentleman give heav'n Homer honour houſe humble fervant imagination inſtances itſelf juſt lady laſt leſs live look mankind manner maſter Menippus Milton mind miſtreſs Mohocks moſt myſelf nature neſs never night obſerve occafion Ovid paffion particular paſſage paſſed paſſion perſon pleaſed pleaſure poem poet preſent raiſe reader reaſon repreſented reſpect riſe ſame ſays ſcene ſchool ſecond ſeems ſenſe ſentiments ſet ſeveral ſhall ſhe ſhew ſhort ſhould Sir ROGER ſome ſpeak SPECTATOR ſpeculation ſpeech ſpirit ſtage ſtate ſtill ſtory ſubject ſuch ſurpriſe tell thee theſe thing thoſe thou thought tion uſe verſe Virg virtue whole whoſe