The Spectator: With Notes and a General Index, Volumes 1-2J. J. Woodward, 1832 - 895 pages |
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... nature , that a generous soul would rather die than submit to them . Besides that a continual anxiety for life vitiates all the relishes of it , and casts a gloom over the whole face of nature ; as it is impossible we should take ...
... nature , that a generous soul would rather die than submit to them . Besides that a continual anxiety for life vitiates all the relishes of it , and casts a gloom over the whole face of nature ; as it is impossible we should take ...
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... nature are apt to raise dark and dis- weakness , and deformity , lay undistin- mal thoughts in timorous minds , and gloomy guished , in the same promiscuous heap of imaginations ; but for my own part , though I am always serious , I do ...
... nature are apt to raise dark and dis- weakness , and deformity , lay undistin- mal thoughts in timorous minds , and gloomy guished , in the same promiscuous heap of imaginations ; but for my own part , though I am always serious , I do ...
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... nature ; though at the same time , I would give free liberty to all superannuated motherly partisans to be as violent as they please , since there will be no danger either of their spoiling their faces , or of their gaining converts ...
... nature ; though at the same time , I would give free liberty to all superannuated motherly partisans to be as violent as they please , since there will be no danger either of their spoiling their faces , or of their gaining converts ...
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... Nature fails him , and being. No. 62. ] Friday , May 11 , 1711 . Scribendi recte sapere est et principium et fons . Hors . Ars Poet . ver . 309 . Sound judgment is the ground of writing well . Roscommon . MR . LOCKE has an admirable ...
... Nature fails him , and being. No. 62. ] Friday , May 11 , 1711 . Scribendi recte sapere est et principium et fons . Hors . Ars Poet . ver . 309 . Sound judgment is the ground of writing well . Roscommon . MR . LOCKE has an admirable ...
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... nature are nothing else but a tissue of epigrams . I cannot conclude this head of mixt wit , without owning that the admira- ble poet , out of whom I have taken the ex- amples of it , had as much true wit as any author that ever writ ...
... nature are nothing else but a tissue of epigrams . I cannot conclude this head of mixt wit , without owning that the admira- ble poet , out of whom I have taken the ex- amples of it , had as much true wit as any author that ever writ ...
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