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JOHN LORD SOMMERS , BARON OF EVESHAM , MY LORD , Should not act the part of an impartial Spectator , if I dedicated the following Papers to one who is not of the most consummate and most acknowledged merit .
JOHN LORD SOMMERS , BARON OF EVESHAM , MY LORD , Should not act the part of an impartial Spectator , if I dedicated the following Papers to one who is not of the most consummate and most acknowledged merit .
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It is no wonder that those scenes should be very surprising which were contrived by two poets of different nations , and raised by two magicians of different fexes . Armida ( as we are told in the argument ) was an Amazonian enchantrefs ...
It is no wonder that those scenes should be very surprising which were contrived by two poets of different nations , and raised by two magicians of different fexes . Armida ( as we are told in the argument ) was an Amazonian enchantrefs ...
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< the prefervation of life should be only a fecondary concern , and the direction of it our principal . If we have this frame of mind , we shall take the best means to preferve life , without being over folicitous about the event ...
< the prefervation of life should be only a fecondary concern , and the direction of it our principal . If we have this frame of mind , we shall take the best means to preferve life , without being over folicitous about the event ...
Pagina 34
He may copy out of it all the lul ling foftnefs and Dying Falls , as Shakefpear calls . them , but should still remember that he ought to accommodate himfelf to an English audience ; and by humouring the tone of our voices in ordinary ...
He may copy out of it all the lul ling foftnefs and Dying Falls , as Shakefpear calls . them , but should still remember that he ought to accommodate himfelf to an English audience ; and by humouring the tone of our voices in ordinary ...
Pagina 40
... I had taken with the opera and the puppet - fhow ; that fome of them were likewife very much surprised , that I should think fuch ferious points as the drefs and equipage of perfons of quality , proper subjects for raillery .
... I had taken with the opera and the puppet - fhow ; that fome of them were likewife very much surprised , that I should think fuch ferious points as the drefs and equipage of perfons of quality , proper subjects for raillery .
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Bibliografische gegevens
| Titel | The Spectator Volume 1 van The Spectator:, Sir Richard Steele |
| Auteurs | Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele |
| Uitgever | Richard Eyres, 1778 |
| Oorspronkelijk uit | Openbare bibliotheek van Lyon |
| Gedigitaliseerd | 14 okt 2011 |
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