The Spectator ..Peter Wilson, 1755 |
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... following , or any other book . One cannot indeed without of- fence , to yourself , obferve , that you excel the rest of mankind in the leaft , as well as the greatest en- endowments . Nor were it a cir- cumftance to be DEDICATION .
... following , or any other book . One cannot indeed without of- fence , to yourself , obferve , that you excel the rest of mankind in the leaft , as well as the greatest en- endowments . Nor were it a cir- cumftance to be DEDICATION .
Strana 13
... greatest wits that ever were produced in one age , lived together in fo good an understanding , and celebrated one another with fo much generofity , that each of them receives an additional luftre from his contemporaries , and is more ...
... greatest wits that ever were produced in one age , lived together in fo good an understanding , and celebrated one another with fo much generofity , that each of them receives an additional luftre from his contemporaries , and is more ...
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... over - reached , as it were , and engag ed contrary to their natural inclinations in a glorious and laudable courfe of action . For we may farther ob- serve , serve , that men of the greatest abilities are most 20 N ° 255 THE SPECTATOR .
... over - reached , as it were , and engag ed contrary to their natural inclinations in a glorious and laudable courfe of action . For we may farther ob- serve , serve , that men of the greatest abilities are most 20 N ° 255 THE SPECTATOR .
Strana 21
serve , that men of the greatest abilities are most fired with ambition : And that on the contrary , mean and narrow minds are the leaft actuated by it ; whether it be that a man's sense of his own incapacities makes him defpair of ...
serve , that men of the greatest abilities are most fired with ambition : And that on the contrary , mean and narrow minds are the leaft actuated by it ; whether it be that a man's sense of his own incapacities makes him defpair of ...
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... greatest characters . In the next place , fame is eafily loft , and as difficult to be preferved as it was at firft to be acquired . But this I fhall make the fubject of a following paper . No 256 Monday , December 24 . φήμη γάρ τε κακὴ ...
... greatest characters . In the next place , fame is eafily loft , and as difficult to be preferved as it was at firft to be acquired . But this I fhall make the fubject of a following paper . No 256 Monday , December 24 . φήμη γάρ τε κακὴ ...
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action Æneid againſt agreeable alfo anſwer beauty becauſe befides behaviour character circumftances confideration converfation criticks defcribed defign defire difcourfe diſcover drefs Enville fable faid falutation fame fecond feems feen fenfe fent fentiments feveral fhall fhew fhort fhould fide filks fince firft firſt fome fomething fometimes foon fortune fpeech fpirit ftill fubject fuch fufficient give greateſt happineſs herſelf himſelf honour houfe houſe humble fervant huſband ibid Iliad infert itſelf kind Lady laft laſt lefs Loft look mankind manner marriage meaſure Milton mind moft moſt muft muſt myſelf nature obferved occafion ourſelves Ovid paffage paffed paffion Paradife particular perfon pleafed pleaſe pleaſure poem poet poffible prefent publick racter raiſe reader reafon reprefented ſeveral ſhall ſhe ſpeak SPECTATOR ſtate thefe themſelves theſe thing thofe thoſe thought tion uſe Virgil virtue whofe woman