The Spectator ...John Sharpe, 1803 |
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Page 60
... particular care to preserve my children from these little horrors and imaginations , which they are apt to contract when they are young , and are not able to shake off when they are in years . I have known a soldier that has entered a ...
... particular care to preserve my children from these little horrors and imaginations , which they are apt to contract when they are young , and are not able to shake off when they are in years . I have known a soldier that has entered a ...
Page 79
... particular persons and families . The world is so full of ill - nature , that I have lampoons sent me by people who cannot spell , and satires composed by those who scarce know how to write . By the last post in particular , I received ...
... particular persons and families . The world is so full of ill - nature , that I have lampoons sent me by people who cannot spell , and satires composed by those who scarce know how to write . By the last post in particular , I received ...
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... particular parts in it that seem liable to ex- ception . " 6 we Aristotle observes , that the Iambic verse in the Greek tongue was the most proper for tragedy : be- cause at the same time that it lifted up the discourse from prose , it ...
... particular parts in it that seem liable to ex- ception . " 6 we Aristotle observes , that the Iambic verse in the Greek tongue was the most proper for tragedy : be- cause at the same time that it lifted up the discourse from prose , it ...
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