The Spectator, Volumen2J. and R. Tonson, 1767 |
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... reader , rather as the first sketch and outlines of a vifion , than as a finished piece . I dreamed that I was admitted into a long fpacious gal- lery , which had one fide covered with pieces of all the famous painters who are now ...
... reader , rather as the first sketch and outlines of a vifion , than as a finished piece . I dreamed that I was admitted into a long fpacious gal- lery , which had one fide covered with pieces of all the famous painters who are now ...
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... reader will think I am not ferious , when I acquaint him that the piece I am going to fpeak of was the old ballad of the Twe " Children in the Wood , " which is one of the darling fongs of the common people , and has been the delight of ...
... reader will think I am not ferious , when I acquaint him that the piece I am going to fpeak of was the old ballad of the Twe " Children in the Wood , " which is one of the darling fongs of the common people , and has been the delight of ...
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... reader of com- mon humanity not to be affected with them . As for the circumftance of the Robin - red - breast , it is indeed a little poetical ornament ; and to fhew the genius of the author amidst all his fimplicity , it is juft the ...
... reader of com- mon humanity not to be affected with them . As for the circumftance of the Robin - red - breast , it is indeed a little poetical ornament ; and to fhew the genius of the author amidst all his fimplicity , it is juft the ...
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... readers . First of all , I would have them feriously think on the fhortness of their time . Life is not long enough for a coquette to play all her tricks in . A timorous woman drops into her grave before she has done deliberating . Were ...
... readers . First of all , I would have them feriously think on the fhortness of their time . Life is not long enough for a coquette to play all her tricks in . A timorous woman drops into her grave before she has done deliberating . Were ...
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... readers , I fhall translate a story that has been quoted upon another occafion by one of the moft learned men of the prefent age , as I find it in the original . The reader will fee it is not foreign to my present fubject , and I dare ...
... readers , I fhall translate a story that has been quoted upon another occafion by one of the moft learned men of the prefent age , as I find it in the original . The reader will fee it is not foreign to my present fubject , and I dare ...
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