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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Page 16
... please the man I love ; he is the end of every care I have ; if L drefs , it is for him ; if I read a poem or a play , it is to qualify myfelf for a converfation agreeable to his tafte : he is almoft the end of my devotions ; half my ...
... please the man I love ; he is the end of every care I have ; if L drefs , it is for him ; if I read a poem or a play , it is to qualify myfelf for a converfation agreeable to his tafte : he is almoft the end of my devotions ; half my ...
Page 17
... please other people , or your- felf ? ' T No 255. SATURDAY , December 21 . By ADDISON . Laudis amore tumes ! funt certa piacula , qua te Ter pure , leto poterunt recreare libello . HOR . Ep . 1. 1. 1. v . 36 . IMITATE D. Know , there ...
... please other people , or your- felf ? ' T No 255. SATURDAY , December 21 . By ADDISON . Laudis amore tumes ! funt certa piacula , qua te Ter pure , leto poterunt recreare libello . HOR . Ep . 1. 1. 1. v . 36 . IMITATE D. Know , there ...
Page 36
... please to make in themselves in their youth , and not expect they fhall be capable of it , from a fond opinion fome have often in their mouths , that if we do not leave our defires , they will leave us . It is far otherwife ; I am now ...
... please to make in themselves in their youth , and not expect they fhall be capable of it , from a fond opinion fome have often in their mouths , that if we do not leave our defires , they will leave us . It is far otherwife ; I am now ...
Page 49
... please to go on thus like a gentleman of the town , and forget all regards to yourself and family , I fhall immediately enter upon your eftate for the arrear due to me , and , without one tear ❝ more , contemn you for forgetting the ...
... please to go on thus like a gentleman of the town , and forget all regards to yourself and family , I fhall immediately enter upon your eftate for the arrear due to me , and , without one tear ❝ more , contemn you for forgetting the ...
Page 62
... please ) a divine poem . It will be fufficient to its perfection , if it has in it all the beauties of the highest kind of poetry ; and as for thofe who alledge it is not an heroic poem , they advance no more to the diminution of it ...
... please ) a divine poem . It will be fufficient to its perfection , if it has in it all the beauties of the highest kind of poetry ; and as for thofe who alledge it is not an heroic poem , they advance no more to the diminution of it ...
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