The Spectator, Volume 5Payne, Rivington, 1799 - English essays |
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Page 61
... thofe beautiful features , and a well - fashioned perfon , is not fo agreeable as he who fits by him without any of thofe advantages . When we read , we do it without any exerted act of memory that prefents the fhape of the letters ...
... thofe beautiful features , and a well - fashioned perfon , is not fo agreeable as he who fits by him without any of thofe advantages . When we read , we do it without any exerted act of memory that prefents the fhape of the letters ...
Page 96
... thofe merry jigs from the organ - loft , which have diffipated thofe good thoughts and difpofitions he has found in him- felf , and the rest of the pew , upon the finging of two • ftaves culled out by the judicious and dilligent clerk ...
... thofe merry jigs from the organ - loft , which have diffipated thofe good thoughts and difpofitions he has found in him- felf , and the rest of the pew , upon the finging of two • ftaves culled out by the judicious and dilligent clerk ...
Page 272
... thofe little cracklings of mirth and folly , that are apter to betray virtue than fupport it ; and cítablish in us fuch an even and chearful temper , as makes us pleafing to our- felves , to thofe with whom we converfe , and to Him whom ...
... thofe little cracklings of mirth and folly , that are apter to betray virtue than fupport it ; and cítablish in us fuch an even and chearful temper , as makes us pleafing to our- felves , to thofe with whom we converfe , and to Him whom ...
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