The Spectator, Volume 5J. Tonson, 1729 - English essays |
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... Agreeable to their Name , ' the avowed design of their Institution is Mischief ; and upon this Foundation all their Rules and Orders are • framed . An outrageous Ambition of doing all possible hurt to their Fellow - Creatures , is the ...
... Agreeable to their Name , ' the avowed design of their Institution is Mischief ; and upon this Foundation all their Rules and Orders are • framed . An outrageous Ambition of doing all possible hurt to their Fellow - Creatures , is the ...
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... agreeable Parts in this Divine Work . THE natural Majesty of Adam , and at the fame time his fubmiffive Behaviour to the Superior Being , who had vouchsafed to be his Guest ; the folemn Hail which the Angel bestows upon the Mother of ...
... agreeable Parts in this Divine Work . THE natural Majesty of Adam , and at the fame time his fubmiffive Behaviour to the Superior Being , who had vouchsafed to be his Guest ; the folemn Hail which the Angel bestows upon the Mother of ...
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... agreeable Company . As foon as I had extricated myself from this shameful Confine- ment , I reflected upon it with so much Horror , that I • deferted all my old Acquaintance , and took Chambers in an Inn of Court , with a Resolution to ...
... agreeable Company . As foon as I had extricated myself from this shameful Confine- ment , I reflected upon it with so much Horror , that I • deferted all my old Acquaintance , and took Chambers in an Inn of Court , with a Resolution to ...
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... agreeable e- nough to the Ideas most Readers would conceive of a Fight between two Armies of Angels . THE second Day's Engagement is apt to startle an Imagination , which has not been raised and qualify'd for such a Description , by the ...
... agreeable e- nough to the Ideas most Readers would conceive of a Fight between two Armies of Angels . THE second Day's Engagement is apt to startle an Imagination , which has not been raised and qualify'd for such a Description , by the ...
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... agreeable as he who fits by him without any of those Advantages . When weread , we do it without any exerted Act of Memory that presents the Shape of the Letters ; but Habit makes us do it mechani- cally , without staying , like ...
... agreeable as he who fits by him without any of those Advantages . When weread , we do it without any exerted Act of Memory that presents the Shape of the Letters ; but Habit makes us do it mechani- cally , without staying , like ...
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८ ८ Adam Æneas Æneid agreeable alſo Angels appear arife beautiful becauſe Behaviour beſt Book Buſineſs Cauſe Character Chearfulness confider Confideration Converſation Cuſtom defire deſcribed Deſcription Deſign Diſcourſe eaſy Eyes faid fame fays feem felf firſt fome foon Friend fuch Gentleman give happy Heart Hiſtory Homer Honour Houſe humble Servant Imagination Inſtance juſt Lady laft laſt live look loſe Love Mankind manner Maſter Menippus Milton Mind Miſtreſs Mohocks moſt muſt Nature never Night obſerve occafion Ovid Paffion particular Paſſage paſſed Perſon pleaſed Pleaſure Poem Poet preſent publick racters raiſe Reader Reaſon repreſented ſame ſays ſecond ſee ſeems ſeen ſelf ſelves Senſe ſerve ſet ſeveral ſhall ſhe ſhew ſhort ſhould ſince Sir ROGER ſome ſomething ſpeak SPECTATOR Spirit ſtill ſuch tell thee themſelves theſe thing thoſe thou thought thro told uſe Verſe Virtue whole whoſe World