The Spectator, Volume 5Payne, Rivington, 1799 - English essays |
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... kind are not to be dallied with , or treated in fo ludicrous a manner . In fhort , my journal only holds up folly to the light , and fhews the difagreeablenefs of fuch actions as are indifferent in themselves , and blameable only as ...
... kind are not to be dallied with , or treated in fo ludicrous a manner . In fhort , my journal only holds up folly to the light , and fhews the difagreeablenefs of fuch actions as are indifferent in themselves , and blameable only as ...
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its kind , if not confidered as a part of fuch a work . The truths contained in it are so clear and open , that I fhall not lofe time in explaining them ; but fhall only observe , that a reader , who knows the ftrength of the English ...
its kind , if not confidered as a part of fuch a work . The truths contained in it are so clear and open , that I fhall not lofe time in explaining them ; but fhall only observe , that a reader , who knows the ftrength of the English ...
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... kind of theatre filled with objects that either raife in us pleafure , amuse- ment , or admiration . The reader's own thoughts will fuggeft to him the viciffitude of day and night , the change of feafons , with all that variety of ...
... kind of theatre filled with objects that either raife in us pleafure , amuse- ment , or admiration . The reader's own thoughts will fuggeft to him the viciffitude of day and night , the change of feafons , with all that variety of ...
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