The Spectator, Том 4W. Wilson, 1778 |
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... subject of the most fublime pens ; but if I could convey you to pofterity in your private cha- racter , and defcribe the ftature , the behaviour , and aspect of the Duke of Marlborough , Iqueftion not but it would fill the reader . with ...
... subject of the most fublime pens ; but if I could convey you to pofterity in your private cha- racter , and defcribe the ftature , the behaviour , and aspect of the Duke of Marlborough , Iqueftion not but it would fill the reader . with ...
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... subject to diminution ; nor can any at- tempts prevail against it , but in the proportion which the narrow circuit of rumour bears to the unlimited extent of fame . We may congratulate your Grace not only upon your high atchievements ...
... subject to diminution ; nor can any at- tempts prevail against it , but in the proportion which the narrow circuit of rumour bears to the unlimited extent of fame . We may congratulate your Grace not only upon your high atchievements ...
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... subject , and be myself outrage- oufly good , I fhall turn to a fcene in one of Fletcher's plays , where this character is drawn , and the œcono- my of whoredom most admirably defcribed . The paf- fage I would point to is in the third ...
... subject , and be myself outrage- oufly good , I fhall turn to a fcene in one of Fletcher's plays , where this character is drawn , and the œcono- my of whoredom most admirably defcribed . The paf- fage I would point to is in the third ...
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... subject of his poem , and of the few characters it would afford him , that he has brought into it two actors of a fhadowy and fictitious nature , in the perfons of Sin and Death , by which means he has wrought into the body of his fable ...
... subject of his poem , and of the few characters it would afford him , that he has brought into it two actors of a fhadowy and fictitious nature , in the perfons of Sin and Death , by which means he has wrought into the body of his fable ...
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... subject , which I have not met with in other writers . That form of government appears to me the most rea- fonable , which is most conformable to the equality that we find in human nature , provided it be confiftent with VOL . IV . G ...
... subject , which I have not met with in other writers . That form of government appears to me the most rea- fonable , which is most conformable to the equality that we find in human nature , provided it be confiftent with VOL . IV . G ...
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