The Spectator: With Sketches of the Lives of the Authors, and Explanatory Notes : in Eight Volumes, Volume 4booksellers, 1797 - English essays |
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... Ovid , we know that Bavius , and Mævius , were his declared foes and calumniators . In our own country a man seldom fets up for a poet , without attacking the reputation of all his brothers in the art . The ignorance of the moderns ...
... Ovid , we know that Bavius , and Mævius , were his declared foes and calumniators . In our own country a man seldom fets up for a poet , without attacking the reputation of all his brothers in the art . The ignorance of the moderns ...
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... Ovid . Trift . 1. 2. v . 566 . I Satirical reflections I avoid . THINK myfelf highly obliged to the public for their kind acceptance of a paper which vifits them every morning , and has in it none of thofe feafonings that recommend fo ...
... Ovid . Trift . 1. 2. v . 566 . I Satirical reflections I avoid . THINK myfelf highly obliged to the public for their kind acceptance of a paper which vifits them every morning , and has in it none of thofe feafonings that recommend fo ...
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... Ovid in his Art of Love has given fome precepts as to this particular , though I find they are different from those which prevail among the moderns . He recommends a red ftriped filk to the pale complexion , white to the brown , and ...
... Ovid in his Art of Love has given fome precepts as to this particular , though I find they are different from those which prevail among the moderns . He recommends a red ftriped filk to the pale complexion , white to the brown , and ...
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... OVID . Ars . Am . l . 1. v . 141 . And brings our old fimplicity again . 7 DRYDEN . WAS this morning furprised with a great knocking at the door , when my landlady's daughter came up to me , and told me that there was a man below ...
... OVID . Ars . Am . l . 1. v . 141 . And brings our old fimplicity again . 7 DRYDEN . WAS this morning furprised with a great knocking at the door , when my landlady's daughter came up to me , and told me that there was a man below ...
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... OVID . Met . 1. 4. v . 428 . Receive inftruction from an enemy . PRESUME I need not inform the polite part of my readers , that before our correfpondence with France was unhappily interrupted by the war , our ladies had all their ...
... OVID . Met . 1. 4. v . 428 . Receive inftruction from an enemy . PRESUME I need not inform the polite part of my readers , that before our correfpondence with France was unhappily interrupted by the war , our ladies had all their ...
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