The SpectatorRichard Eyres, 1778 |
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Strana 23
... fubject to it . All the per- fections of their fellow - creatures are odious ; youth , beauty , valour , and wisdom , are provoca- tions of their difpleasure . What a wretched and apoftate state is this ! To be offended with ex ...
... fubject to it . All the per- fections of their fellow - creatures are odious ; youth , beauty , valour , and wisdom , are provoca- tions of their difpleasure . What a wretched and apoftate state is this ! To be offended with ex ...
Strana 27
... fubject of ridicule and buffoonry . It is impoffible to enumerate the evils which arife from these arrows that fly in the dark ; and I know no other excufe that is or can be made for them , than that the wounds they give are only ...
... fubject of ridicule and buffoonry . It is impoffible to enumerate the evils which arife from these arrows that fly in the dark ; and I know no other excufe that is or can be made for them , than that the wounds they give are only ...
Strana 31
... fubject . I have left the repofitory of our English kings for the contempla- tion of another day , when I fhall find my mind difpofed for fo ferious an amufement . I know that entertainments of this nature are apt to raise dark and ...
... fubject . I have left the repofitory of our English kings for the contempla- tion of another day , when I fhall find my mind difpofed for fo ferious an amufement . I know that entertainments of this nature are apt to raise dark and ...
Strana 46
... fubject , I muft obferve that our English poets have fucceeded much bet- ter in the ftile , than in the fentiments of their tra- gedies . Their language is very often noble and fonorous , but the fenfe either very trifling or very ...
... fubject , I muft obferve that our English poets have fucceeded much bet- ter in the ftile , than in the fentiments of their tra- gedies . Their language is very often noble and fonorous , but the fenfe either very trifling or very ...
Strana 63
... fubject of converfation at feveral tea - tables where I have been prefent ; and I have obferved " the fair circle not a little pleafed to find you con- ' fidering them as reafonable creatures , and en- ' deavouring to banish that ...
... fubject of converfation at feveral tea - tables where I have been prefent ; and I have obferved " the fair circle not a little pleafed to find you con- ' fidering them as reafonable creatures , and en- ' deavouring to banish that ...
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