The Spectator, Volume 4J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, 1753 - English essays |
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• AS there are none more ambitious of Fame , than those who are converfant in Poetry , it is very natural for fuch as have not fucceeded in it to depreciate the Works of those who have . For fince they cannot raise themselves to the ...
• AS there are none more ambitious of Fame , than those who are converfant in Poetry , it is very natural for fuch as have not fucceeded in it to depreciate the Works of those who have . For fince they cannot raise themselves to the ...
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... Those who were once his Equals envy and defame him , because they now fee him their Superior ; and those who were once his Superiors , because they look upon him as their Equal . BUT farther , a Man whofe extraordinary Reputation thus ...
... Those who were once his Equals envy and defame him , because they now fee him their Superior ; and those who were once his Superiors , because they look upon him as their Equal . BUT farther , a Man whofe extraordinary Reputation thus ...
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... those which prevail among the Moderns . He recommends a red ftriped Silk to the pale Complexion ; White to the Brown , and dark to the Fair . On the contrary my Friend WILL , who pretends to be a greater Mafter in this Art than Ovid ...
... those which prevail among the Moderns . He recommends a red ftriped Silk to the pale Complexion ; White to the Brown , and dark to the Fair . On the contrary my Friend WILL , who pretends to be a greater Mafter in this Art than Ovid ...
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