The Spectator ..Peter Wilson, 1755 |
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... admire . For this reafon I think there is nothing in the world fo tiresome as the works of those criticks who write in a po- fitive dogmatick way , without either language , genius , or imagination . If the reader would fee how the best ...
... admire . For this reafon I think there is nothing in the world fo tiresome as the works of those criticks who write in a po- fitive dogmatick way , without either language , genius , or imagination . If the reader would fee how the best ...
Strana 15
... admired in an ancient poet . The reader may obferve the following lines in the fame view . A needlefs Alexandrine ends the fong , That like a wounded snake drags its flow length along . And afterwards , ' Tis not enough no harshness ...
... admired in an ancient poet . The reader may obferve the following lines in the fame view . A needlefs Alexandrine ends the fong , That like a wounded snake drags its flow length along . And afterwards , ' Tis not enough no harshness ...
Strana 21
... admiration of the world , and to distinguish themselves from the reft of mankind ? Providence for the moft part fets us upon a level , and obferves a kind of proportion in its difpenfa- tions towards us . Ifit renders us perfect in one ...
... admiration of the world , and to distinguish themselves from the reft of mankind ? Providence for the moft part fets us upon a level , and obferves a kind of proportion in its difpenfa- tions towards us . Ifit renders us perfect in one ...
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... admiration of a famous man leffens upon our nearer ac- quaintance with him : and that we feldom hear the de- fcription of a celebrated perfon , without a catalogue of fome notorious weakneffes and infirmities . The reafon may be ...
... admiration of a famous man leffens upon our nearer ac- quaintance with him : and that we feldom hear the de- fcription of a celebrated perfon , without a catalogue of fome notorious weakneffes and infirmities . The reafon may be ...
Strana 26
... Admiration is a very fhort lived paflion , that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object , unless it be still fed with fresh difcoveries , and kept alive by a new perpetual fucceffion of miracles rifing up to its view ...
... Admiration is a very fhort lived paflion , that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object , unless it be still fed with fresh difcoveries , and kept alive by a new perpetual fucceffion of miracles rifing up to its view ...
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