The Spectator: With Sketches of the Lives of the Authors, an Index, and Explanatory Notes, Volume 7James Crissy, 1832 - Spectator |
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... tells him all this is spleen , and he must have a wife ; while all the members of the Inquisition are unanimous in a certain woman for him , and they think they all together are better able to judge than he or any other private person ...
... tells him all this is spleen , and he must have a wife ; while all the members of the Inquisition are unanimous in a certain woman for him , and they think they all together are better able to judge than he or any other private person ...
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... tell thee how I hate thy beams , That bring to my remembrance from what state I fell , how glorious once above thy sphere . This speech is , I think , the finest that is as- cribed to Satan in the whole poem . The evil spirit afterwards ...
... tell thee how I hate thy beams , That bring to my remembrance from what state I fell , how glorious once above thy sphere . This speech is , I think , the finest that is as- cribed to Satan in the whole poem . The evil spirit afterwards ...
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... tells us , that before the battle between Hee- tor and Achilles , Jupiter weighed the event of it in a pair of scales . The reader may see the whole passage in the twenty - second Iliad . ( See No. 463. ) Virgil , before the last ...
... tells us , that before the battle between Hee- tor and Achilles , Jupiter weighed the event of it in a pair of scales . The reader may see the whole passage in the twenty - second Iliad . ( See No. 463. ) Virgil , before the last ...
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... tell you my tears and reproaches made the boisterous calf leave the room ashamed and out of countenance , when I had leisure to ruminate on this accident with more than ordinary sorrow ; however , such was then my confidence in my ...
... tell you my tears and reproaches made the boisterous calf leave the room ashamed and out of countenance , when I had leisure to ruminate on this accident with more than ordinary sorrow ; however , such was then my confidence in my ...
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... tells me my glass is not true . Dressed by three . From three to four down . Dinner cold before I sat From four to eleven . Saw company . Mr. Froth's opinion of Milton . His account of the Mohocks . His fancy of a pin - cushion ...
... tells me my glass is not true . Dressed by three . From three to four down . Dinner cold before I sat From four to eleven . Saw company . Mr. Froth's opinion of Milton . His account of the Mohocks . His fancy of a pin - cushion ...
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