The Spectator. Volume the First. [-eighth.].J. and R. Tonson in the Strand., 1744 |
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... Nature , which may open to us a more uncommon Field of Speculation . FROM what has already been obferved , I think we may have a natural Conclufion , that it is the greatest Folly to feek the Praise or Approbation of any Being , be ...
... Nature , which may open to us a more uncommon Field of Speculation . FROM what has already been obferved , I think we may have a natural Conclufion , that it is the greatest Folly to feek the Praise or Approbation of any Being , be ...
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... Nature , both in Virgil and Milton . Sentiments , which raise Laughter , can very fel- dom be admitted with any Decency into an Heroic Poem , whose Business it is to excite Paffions of a much nobler Nature . Homer , however , in his ...
... Nature , both in Virgil and Milton . Sentiments , which raise Laughter , can very fel- dom be admitted with any Decency into an Heroic Poem , whose Business it is to excite Paffions of a much nobler Nature . Homer , however , in his ...
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... natural , we fhould , with Horace , impute to a pardonable Inadvertency , or to the Weakness of human Nature , which cannot attend to each minute Particular , and . give the laft Finishing to every Circumftance in fo long a Work . The ...
... natural , we fhould , with Horace , impute to a pardonable Inadvertency , or to the Weakness of human Nature , which cannot attend to each minute Particular , and . give the laft Finishing to every Circumftance in fo long a Work . The ...
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