The Spectator, Volume 5W. Wilson, 1778 |
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... reafon I could not forbear communicating to you fome imperfect informations of a fet of men ( if you will allow them a place in that fpecies of being ) who ' have lately erected themfelves into a nocturnal frater- nity under the title ...
... reafon I could not forbear communicating to you fome imperfect informations of a fet of men ( if you will allow them a place in that fpecies of being ) who ' have lately erected themfelves into a nocturnal frater- nity under the title ...
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... reafon for the angel's proceeding with Adam after this manner ; though doubtless the true reafon was the difficulty which the poet would have found to have fhadowed out fo mixed and complicated a ftory in vifible objects . I could wish ...
... reafon for the angel's proceeding with Adam after this manner ; though doubtless the true reafon was the difficulty which the poet would have found to have fhadowed out fo mixed and complicated a ftory in vifible objects . I could wish ...
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... reafon ; with which however Mr. Cowley is so of- fended , that writing to one of his friends , You , fays he , tell me , that you do not know whether Perfius be a good poet or no , because you cannot understand him ; for which very reafon ...
... reafon ; with which however Mr. Cowley is so of- fended , that writing to one of his friends , You , fays he , tell me , that you do not know whether Perfius be a good poet or no , because you cannot understand him ; for which very reafon ...
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