“The” Spectator ...J. Wood, 1761 |
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Strana 15
... reader , rather as the first sketch and outlines of a vifion , than as a finished piece . I DREAMT that I was admitted into a long fpacious gallery which had one fide covered with pieces of all the famous painters who are now living ...
... reader , rather as the first sketch and outlines of a vifion , than as a finished piece . I DREAMT that I was admitted into a long fpacious gallery which had one fide covered with pieces of all the famous painters who are now living ...
Strana 22
... reader will think I am not ferious , when I acquaint him that the piece I am going to speak of was the old ballad of the Two 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 speak of was the old ballad of the Two Children in the Wood , which is one of the darling fongs of the common people , and has been the delight of ...
Strana 23
... reader of common humanity not to be affected with them . As for the circum- ftance of the Robin - red - breaft , it is indeed a little poetical ornament ; and to fhew the genius of the author amidst all his fimplicity , it is just the ...
... reader of common humanity not to be affected with them . As for the circum- ftance of the Robin - red - breaft , it is indeed a little poetical ornament ; and to fhew the genius of the author amidst all his fimplicity , it is just the ...
Strana 36
... readers . FIRST of all , I would have them seriously think on the shortness 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 fhe has done deliberating . Were ...
... readers . FIRST of all , I would have them seriously think on the shortness 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 fhe has done deliberating . Were ...
Strana 40
... readers ) I thall tranflate a story that has been quoted upon another occafion by one of the most learned men of the prefent age , as I find it in the original . The reader will fee it is not foreign to my prefent fubject , and I dare ...
... readers ) I thall tranflate a story that has been quoted upon another occafion by one of the most learned men of the prefent age , as I find it in the original . The reader will fee it is not foreign to my prefent fubject , and I dare ...
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