The Spectator, Volume 4Payne, Rivington, 1799 - English essays |
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... moft happy and moft honourable state of life ; where- as , if they would but correct their depraved taste , moderate their ambition , and place their happiness upon proper objects , we fhould not find felicity in the marriage ftate fuch ...
... moft happy and moft honourable state of life ; where- as , if they would but correct their depraved taste , moderate their ambition , and place their happiness upon proper objects , we fhould not find felicity in the marriage ftate fuch ...
Page 191
... moft taking tragedies among the antients , were built on this last fort of implex fable , particularly the tragedy of OEdipus , which proceeds upon a ftory , if we may believe Ariftotle , the moft proper for tragedy that could be ...
... moft taking tragedies among the antients , were built on this last fort of implex fable , particularly the tragedy of OEdipus , which proceeds upon a ftory , if we may believe Ariftotle , the moft proper for tragedy that could be ...
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... moft obedient , moft humble fervant , • WILL SPRIGHTLY . ? I have not time at present to make any reflections on this letter , but must not however omit , that having fhewn it to WILL HONEYCOMB , he defires to be ac- quainted with the ...
... moft obedient , moft humble fervant , • WILL SPRIGHTLY . ? I have not time at present to make any reflections on this letter , but must not however omit , that having fhewn it to WILL HONEYCOMB , he defires to be ac- quainted with the ...
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