The Spectator ...John Sharpe, 1803 |
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... affectation of knowledge . We aim at establishing some settled notion of what is music , at recovering from neglect and want very many families who depend upon it , at making all foreigners who pretend to succeed in England to learn the ...
... affectation of knowledge . We aim at establishing some settled notion of what is music , at recovering from neglect and want very many families who depend upon it , at making all foreigners who pretend to succeed in England to learn the ...
Strana 163
... affectation of greatness often hurts the perspicuity of the stile , as in many others the endeavour after perspicuity prejudices its greatness . Aristotle has observed , that the idiomatic stile may be avoided , and the sublime formed ...
... affectation of greatness often hurts the perspicuity of the stile , as in many others the endeavour after perspicuity prejudices its greatness . Aristotle has observed , that the idiomatic stile may be avoided , and the sublime formed ...
Strana 167
... affectation , not politeness . What then can be the standard of de- licacy , but truth and virtue ? Virtue , which , as the sa- tirist long since observed , is real honour ; whereas the other distinctions among mankind are merely titu ...
... affectation , not politeness . What then can be the standard of de- licacy , but truth and virtue ? Virtue , which , as the sa- tirist long since observed , is real honour ; whereas the other distinctions among mankind are merely titu ...
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