The Spectator: With Sketches of the Lives of the Authors, an Index, and Explanatory Notes, Volume 8James Crissy, 1832 - Spectator |
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... paper on Milton , that an heroic poem , according to the opinion of the best critics , ought to end happily , and leave the mind of the reader , after having conducted it through many doubts and fears , sorrows and disquietudes , in a ...
... paper on Milton , that an heroic poem , according to the opinion of the best critics , ought to end happily , and leave the mind of the reader , after having conducted it through many doubts and fears , sorrows and disquietudes , in a ...
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... paper . I have in the next place spoken of the censures which our author may incur under each of these heads , which I have confined to two papers , though I might have enlarged the number , if I had been dispos- ed to dwell on so ...
... paper . I have in the next place spoken of the censures which our author may incur under each of these heads , which I have confined to two papers , though I might have enlarged the number , if I had been dispos- ed to dwell on so ...
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... paper . ' Be it so then . If I am to die to - morrow , that is what I am to do to - morrow ; it will not be then , because I am willing it should be then ; nor shall I escape it , because I am unwilling : it is in the gods when , but in ...
... paper . ' Be it so then . If I am to die to - morrow , that is what I am to do to - morrow ; it will not be then , because I am willing it should be then ; nor shall I escape it , because I am unwilling : it is in the gods when , but in ...
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... paper with the story of Rosicrusius's sepulchre . I suppose I need not inform my readers that this man was the author of the Rosicrusian sect , and that his disciples still pretend to new discoveries which they are never to communicate ...
... paper with the story of Rosicrusius's sepulchre . I suppose I need not inform my readers that this man was the author of the Rosicrusian sect , and that his disciples still pretend to new discoveries which they are never to communicate ...
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... papers , make me address myself to you in this abrupt manner , and to desire your opinion what in this age a woman may call a lover . I have had lately a gentleman that I thought made pretensions to me , No. 380 . 55 THE SPECTATOR .
... papers , make me address myself to you in this abrupt manner , and to desire your opinion what in this age a woman may call a lover . I have had lately a gentleman that I thought made pretensions to me , No. 380 . 55 THE SPECTATOR .
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