The Spectator, Volume 4Payne, Rivington, 1799 - English essays |
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... nature , which may open to us a more uncommon field of fpeculation . From what has been already obferved , I think we may make 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 fpeculation . From what has been already obferved , I think we may make a natural conclufion , that it is the greatest folly to feek the praise or approbation of any being , be ...
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... nature , or out of it , has a proper part affigned it in this admirable poem . In poetry , as in architecture , not only the whole , but the principal members , and every part of them , fhould be great . I will not prefume to fay , that ...
... nature , or out of it , has a proper part affigned it in this admirable poem . In poetry , as in architecture , not only the whole , but the principal members , and every part of them , fhould be great . I will not prefume to fay , that ...
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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 last 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 last finishing to every circumftance in fo long a work . The ...
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