The Spectator ..Peter Wilson, 1755 |
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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 un- limited extent of fame . ( We may congratulate your Grace not only upon your high atchiev ...
... subject to diminution ; nor can any at- tempts prevail against it , but in the proportion which the narrow circuit of rumour bears to the un- limited extent of fame . ( We may congratulate your Grace not only upon your high atchiev ...
Strana 21
... subject him to fuch a paffion as would be use- lefs to the world , and a torment to himself . Were not this defire of fame very strong , the diffi- culty of obtaining it , and the danger of lofing it when obtained , would be fufficient ...
... subject him to fuch a paffion as would be use- lefs to the world , and a torment to himself . Were not this defire of fame very strong , the diffi- culty of obtaining it , and the danger of lofing it when obtained , would be fufficient ...
Strana 41
... subject , than that of the art of growing old . In fuch a lecture you muft propose , that no one fet his heart upon what is tranfient ; the beauty grows wrinkled while we are yet gazing at her . The witty man ⚫ finks into an humourift ...
... subject , than that of the art of growing old . In fuch a lecture you muft propose , that no one fet his heart upon what is tranfient ; the beauty grows wrinkled while we are yet gazing at her . The witty man ⚫ finks into an humourift ...
Strana 43
... subject of marriage . I was in my younger years engaged , partly by his advice , and partly by my own inclinations in the courtship of a perfon who had a great deal of beauty , and did not at my first approaches feem to have any ...
... subject of marriage . I was in my younger years engaged , partly by his advice , and partly by my own inclinations in the courtship of a perfon who had a great deal of beauty , and did not at my first approaches feem to have any ...
Strana 48
... subjects of difcourfe that may be treated without warmth or paffion . This is faid to have been the first design of thofe Gentle- men who set on foot the royal fociety ; and had then a very good effect , as it turned many of the ...
... subjects of difcourfe that may be treated without warmth or paffion . This is faid to have been the first design of thofe Gentle- men who set on foot the royal fociety ; and had then a very good effect , as it turned many of the ...
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