The Spectator ..Peter Wilson, 1755 |
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Strana 14
... common fenfe of mankind in more ftrong , more beautiful . or more uncommon lights . If a reader examines Horace's Art of Poetry , he will find but very few precepts in it , which he may not meet with in Ariftotle , and which were not ...
... common fenfe of mankind in more ftrong , more beautiful . or more uncommon lights . If a reader examines Horace's Art of Poetry , he will find but very few precepts in it , which he may not meet with in Ariftotle , and which were not ...
Strana 19
... common - place rallery of every thing that is fober , decent and proper : Ma- trimony and the clergy are the topics of people of ⚫ little wit and no understanding . I own to you , I have ⚫ learned of the vicar's wife all you tax me ...
... common - place rallery of every thing that is fober , decent and proper : Ma- trimony and the clergy are the topics of people of ⚫ little wit and no understanding . I own to you , I have ⚫ learned of the vicar's wife all you tax me ...
Strana 20
... common principle of action work- ing equally with all men . And fuch a principle is ambi- tion or a defire of fame , by which great endowments are not fuffered to lie idle and useless to the publick , and many vicious men , over ...
... common principle of action work- ing equally with all men . And fuch a principle is ambi- tion or a defire of fame , by which great endowments are not fuffered to lie idle and useless to the publick , and many vicious men , over ...
Strana 23
... common judgment and opinion of mankind ill- founded for certainly it denotes no great bravery of mind to be worked up to any noble action by fo selfish a motive , and to do that out of a defire of fame , which we could not be prompted ...
... common judgment and opinion of mankind ill- founded for certainly it denotes no great bravery of mind to be worked up to any noble action by fo selfish a motive , and to do that out of a defire of fame , which we could not be prompted ...
Strana 24
... common reports of fame , and in spreading abroad the weaknesses of an exalted character . They publish their ill ... common = common ftamp , never meets with that reception and 24 N ° 256 THE SPECTATOR .
... common reports of fame , and in spreading abroad the weaknesses of an exalted character . They publish their ill ... common = common ftamp , never meets with that reception and 24 N ° 256 THE SPECTATOR .
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