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Pagina xvi
... that I had the " pleasure of converfing with an intimate acquaint" ance of Terence and Catullus , who had all their " wit and nature , heightened with humour more " exquifite and delightful than any other man ever " poffeffed .
... that I had the " pleasure of converfing with an intimate acquaint" ance of Terence and Catullus , who had all their " wit and nature , heightened with humour more " exquifite and delightful than any other man ever " poffeffed .
Pagina xix
... of the Imagination , in which he founds art on the bafe af nature , and draws the principles of invention from difpofitions inherent in the mind of man , with skill and elegance , fuch as his contemners will not eafily attain .
... of the Imagination , in which he founds art on the bafe af nature , and draws the principles of invention from difpofitions inherent in the mind of man , with skill and elegance , fuch as his contemners will not eafily attain .
Pagina xx
He never o'erfteps the modefty of nature , nor raises merriment or wonder by the violation of truth . His figures neither divert by distortion , nor amafe by aggravation . He copies life with fo much fidelity , that he can be hardly ...
He never o'erfteps the modefty of nature , nor raises merriment or wonder by the violation of truth . His figures neither divert by distortion , nor amafe by aggravation . He copies life with fo much fidelity , that he can be hardly ...
Pagina xxiv
But to enumerate the great advantages which the public has received from your adminiftration , would be a more proper work for an history than for an addrefs of this nature . Your Lordship appears as great in your private life , as in ...
But to enumerate the great advantages which the public has received from your adminiftration , would be a more proper work for an history than for an addrefs of this nature . Your Lordship appears as great in your private life , as in ...
Pagina 1
I HAVE obferved , that a reader feldom peruses a book with pleasure , till he knows whether the writer of it be a back or a fair man , of a mild or choleric difpofition , married or a bachelor ; with other particulars of the like nature ...
I HAVE obferved , that a reader feldom peruses a book with pleasure , till he knows whether the writer of it be a back or a fair man , of a mild or choleric difpofition , married or a bachelor ; with other particulars of the like nature ...
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Bibliografische gegevens
| Titel | The Spectator, Volume 1 The Spectator, Joseph Addison |
| Auteur | Joseph Addison |
| gepubliceerd | 1793 |
| Oorspronkelijk uit | Openbare bibliotheek van Lyon |
| Gedigitaliseerd | 3 okt 2012 |
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