The British Essayists: SpectatorAlexander Chalmers J. M'Creery, Printer, 1817 |
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... whole sentences or poems , cast into the figures of eggs , axes , or altars : nay , some carry the notion of wit so far , as to ascribe it even to external mimicry ; and to look upon a man as an ingenious person , that can resemble the ...
... whole sentences or poems , cast into the figures of eggs , axes , or altars : nay , some carry the notion of wit so far , as to ascribe it even to external mimicry ; and to look upon a man as an ingenious person , that can resemble the ...
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... whole jest was to mistake one person for another . To give occasion for these ludicrous mistakes , they were di- vided into pairs , every pair being covered from head to foot with the same kind of dress , though perhaps there was not ...
... whole jest was to mistake one person for another . To give occasion for these ludicrous mistakes , they were di- vided into pairs , every pair being covered from head to foot with the same kind of dress , though perhaps there was not ...
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... whole hemisphere is extinguished ; such was the vanishing of the goddess : and not only of the god- dess herself , but of the whole army that attended her , which sympathized with their leader , and shrunk into nothing , in proportion ...
... whole hemisphere is extinguished ; such was the vanishing of the goddess : and not only of the god- dess herself , but of the whole army that attended her , which sympathized with their leader , and shrunk into nothing , in proportion ...
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... whole world run into the habit of the court . You see the lady , who the day before was as various as a rainbow , upon the time appointed for beginning to mourn , as dark as a cloud . This humour does not prevail only on those whose ...
... whole world run into the habit of the court . You see the lady , who the day before was as various as a rainbow , upon the time appointed for beginning to mourn , as dark as a cloud . This humour does not prevail only on those whose ...
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... whole celebrated piece is a perfect contradic- tion to good manners , good sense , and common ho- nesty ; and as there is nothing in it but what is built upon the ruin of virtue and innocence , according to the notion of merit in this ...
... whole celebrated piece is a perfect contradic- tion to good manners , good sense , and common ho- nesty ; and as there is nothing in it but what is built upon the ruin of virtue and innocence , according to the notion of merit in this ...
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