The Spectator, Volume 6Alexander Chalmers E. Sargeant, M. & W. Ward, Munroe, Francis & Parker, and Edward Cotton, Boston, 1810 - English essays |
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... pleasure has in it something inso- lent and improper for our being . There is a pretty sober liveliness in the ode of Horace to Delius , where he tells him , loud mirth , or immo- derate sorrow , inequality of behaviour either in ...
... pleasure has in it something inso- lent and improper for our being . There is a pretty sober liveliness in the ode of Horace to Delius , where he tells him , loud mirth , or immo- derate sorrow , inequality of behaviour either in ...
Page 215
... pleasure in supressing them in others ; both which I recommend to your spec- tatorial wisdom to animadvert upon ; and if you can be successful in it , I need not say how much you will deserve of the town ; but new toasts will owe to you ...
... pleasure in supressing them in others ; both which I recommend to your spec- tatorial wisdom to animadvert upon ; and if you can be successful in it , I need not say how much you will deserve of the town ; but new toasts will owe to you ...
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... pleasure as these , and the reports of the agreeable passages in their jollities , have in all ages awakened the dull part of mankind to pretend to mirth and good humour , without capacity for such entertain- ments ; for , if I may be ...
... pleasure as these , and the reports of the agreeable passages in their jollities , have in all ages awakened the dull part of mankind to pretend to mirth and good humour , without capacity for such entertain- ments ; for , if I may be ...
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