The Spectator: With Notes, and a General Index : the Eight Volumes Comprised in OneSharpe and Hailes, Piccadilly, Taylor and Hessey, Fleet Street, Craddock and Joy, Paternoster Row and J.M. Richardson, Cornhill, 1811 - English essays - 751 pages |
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... Virgil , we shall find that the English writers , in their way of thinking and expressing themselves , resemble those authors much more than the modern Italians pretend to do . And as for the poet him- self , from whom the dreams of ...
... Virgil , we shall find that the English writers , in their way of thinking and expressing themselves , resemble those authors much more than the modern Italians pretend to do . And as for the poet him- self , from whom the dreams of ...
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... Virgil has very finely touched upon this female passion for dress and show , in the character of Ca- milla ; who , though she seems to have shaken off all the other weaknesses of her sex , is still described as a woman in this ...
... Virgil has very finely touched upon this female passion for dress and show , in the character of Ca- milla ; who , though she seems to have shaken off all the other weaknesses of her sex , is still described as a woman in this ...
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... Virgil's army , which he tells us was so crowded , many of them had not room to use their weapons . This prodigious society of men may be divided into the litigious and peaceable . Under the first are comprehended all those who are ...
... Virgil's army , which he tells us was so crowded , many of them had not room to use their weapons . This prodigious society of men may be divided into the litigious and peaceable . Under the first are comprehended all those who are ...
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... Virgil , had Eneas always represented with a Roman nose , in compliment to King William . every body's business to speak for themselves . " Mr. President immediately retorted , “ A hand- some fellow ! why he is a wit , sir , and you ...
... Virgil , had Eneas always represented with a Roman nose , in compliment to King William . every body's business to speak for themselves . " Mr. President immediately retorted , “ A hand- some fellow ! why he is a wit , sir , and you ...
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... Virgil . Dryden's Juvenal . Cassandra . Cleopatra . Astræa . Sir Isaac Newton's Works . The Grand Cyrus ; with a pin stuck in one of the middle leaves . Pembroke's Arcadia . Locke on Human Understanding ; with a paper of patches in it ...
... Virgil . Dryden's Juvenal . Cassandra . Cleopatra . Astræa . Sir Isaac Newton's Works . The Grand Cyrus ; with a pin stuck in one of the middle leaves . Pembroke's Arcadia . Locke on Human Understanding ; with a paper of patches in it ...
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