The Spectator: With a Historical and Biographical Preface, Volume 2Alexander Chalmers Little, Brown and Company, 1869 |
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... reader , that the frontiers of the enchanted region , which I have before de- scribed , were inhabited by the species of Mixed Wit , who made a very odd appearance when they were mustered together in an army . There were men whose ...
... reader , that the frontiers of the enchanted region , which I have before de- scribed , were inhabited by the species of Mixed Wit , who made a very odd appearance when they were mustered together in an army . There were men whose ...
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... readers have not understood me for some days last past , and take themselves to be unconcerned in the present turn of my writings . When a girl is safely brought from her nurse , be- fore she is capable of forming one simple notion of ...
... readers have not understood me for some days last past , and take themselves to be unconcerned in the present turn of my writings . When a girl is safely brought from her nurse , be- fore she is capable of forming one simple notion of ...
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... reader will only look upon it as filling up the place of an advertisement : 6 SIR , " As you are a Spectator , I think we who make it our business to exhibit any thing to public view , ought to apply ourselves to you for your approba ...
... reader will only look upon it as filling up the place of an advertisement : 6 SIR , " As you are a Spectator , I think we who make it our business to exhibit any thing to public view , ought to apply ourselves to you for your approba ...
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... readers of all qua- lities and conditions . Moliere , as we are told by Monsieur Boileau , used to read all his comedies to an old woman who was his housekeeper , as she sat with him at her work by the chimney - corner ; and could ...
... readers of all qua- lities and conditions . Moliere , as we are told by Monsieur Boileau , used to read all his comedies to an old woman who was his housekeeper , as she sat with him at her work by the chimney - corner ; and could ...
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... reader of plain common sense , who would neither relish nor comprehend an epigram of Martial , or a poem of Cowley ; so , on the contrary , an ordinary song or ballad that is the delight of the common people , cannot fail to please all ...
... reader of plain common sense , who would neither relish nor comprehend an epigram of Martial , or a poem of Cowley ; so , on the contrary , an ordinary song or ballad that is the delight of the common people , cannot fail to please all ...
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