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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... ftill keep them- felves upon a level with them . 1 The greatest wits that ever were produced in one age , lived together in fo good an understanding , and celebrated one another with fo much generofity , that each of them receives an ...
... ftill keep them- felves upon a level with them . 1 The greatest wits that ever were produced in one age , lived together in fo good an understanding , and celebrated one another with fo much generofity , that each of them receives an ...
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... ftill more convinced of their truth and folidity . And here give me leave to mention what Monfieur Boileau has fo very well enlarged upon the preface to his works , that wit and fine - writing do not confift so much in advancing things ...
... ftill more convinced of their truth and folidity . And here give me leave to mention what Monfieur Boileau has fo very well enlarged upon the preface to his works , that wit and fine - writing do not confift so much in advancing things ...
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... ftill afraid left any of his actions fhould be thrown away in private , left his deferts fhould be concealed from the notice of the world , or receive any disadvantage from the reports which others make of them . This often fets him on ...
... ftill afraid left any of his actions fhould be thrown away in private , left his deferts fhould be concealed from the notice of the world , or receive any disadvantage from the reports which others make of them . This often fets him on ...
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... ftill keep him on the fame level with themselves . The like kind of confideration often ftirs up the envy of fuch as were once his fuperiors , who think it a detraction from their merit to fee another get ground upon them and overtake ...
... ftill keep him on the fame level with themselves . The like kind of confideration often ftirs up the envy of fuch as were once his fuperiors , who think it a detraction from their merit to fee another get ground upon them and overtake ...
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... ftill be the more furprised to see fo many restless candidates for glory . Ambition raises a fecret tumult in the soul , it inflames the mind , and puts it into a violent hurry of thought : it is ftill reaching after an empty imaginary ...
... ftill be the more furprised to see fo many restless candidates for glory . Ambition raises a fecret tumult in the soul , it inflames the mind , and puts it into a violent hurry of thought : it is ftill reaching after an empty imaginary ...
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