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Pagina 15
... reader , rather as the firft sketch and outlines of a vifion , than as a finished piece . I dreamt 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 living ...
... reader , rather as the firft sketch and outlines of a vifion , than as a finished piece . I dreamt 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 living ...
Pagina 23
... 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 thie 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 thie delight of ...
Pagina 24
... reader of com- mon humanity not to be affected with them . As for the circumftance of the Robin - red - breaft , it is indeed a little poetical ornament ; and to fhew the genius of the author amidft 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 - breaft , it is indeed a little poetical ornament ; and to fhew the genius of the author amidft all his fimplicity , it is juft the ...
Pagina 38
... readers . First of all I would have them feriously think on the fhortnefs 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 feriously think on the fhortnefs 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 ...
Pagina 42
... readers ) I fhall 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 present subject , and I dare ...
... readers ) I fhall 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 present subject , and I dare ...
Overige edities - Alles bekijken
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
againſt beauty becauſe befides behaviour bufinefs cife confider confideration converfation courfe creature defign defire difcourfe drefs eftate Eudoxus exercife exprefs eyes faid fame faſhion fatire fecret feems felf felves fenfe fent fervant ferve feven feveral fhall fhew fhort fhould fide fince firft fome fomething fometimes foon forrow foul fpeak fpecies fpeculation fpirit ftill fubject fuch fuffered fure gentleman give Glaphyra himſelf honeft honour houfe houſe humble fervant humour ibid inftances itſelf lady laft live look mafter mankind manner mind moft moſt muft muſt myſelf nature neceffary obferve occafion ourſelves paffion pafs perfon Pharamond pleafed pleaſed pleaſure poffible prefent publick purpoſe raiſed reafon refpect reft ſeveral ſhall ſhe Sir ROGER ſpeak SPECTATOR thefe themſelves theſe thing thofe thoſe thou thought ufual underſtanding uſe Virg whofe woman women words young