The Observer: Being a Collection of Moral, Literary and Familiar Essays, Volume 4C. Dilly, 1788 |
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Page 46
... seems to be the result of many virtuous and refined endowments of the mind , which produces it ; for when we see any man fo tenderly confiderate of our feelings , as to , put afide his own for our accommodation and repose , and to ...
... seems to be the result of many virtuous and refined endowments of the mind , which produces it ; for when we see any man fo tenderly confiderate of our feelings , as to , put afide his own for our accommodation and repose , and to ...
Page 82
... seem , of the Tnparádns , reasons thus- " I grant you that an old fellow like myself , if " he be a wife fellow withal , one that has feen ❝ much and learnt a great deal , may be good for ἐσ fomething and keep a fhop open for all cuf ...
... seem , of the Tnparádns , reasons thus- " I grant you that an old fellow like myself , if " he be a wife fellow withal , one that has feen ❝ much and learnt a great deal , may be good for ἐσ fomething and keep a fhop open for all cuf ...
Page 89
... seem to merit a tranflation ; had he fpared thofe which his paffion destroyed , happy chance might perhaps have rescued something worth our notice . ARISTOPH ON . This poet has left us more and better remem- brancers of his mufe ...
... seem to merit a tranflation ; had he fpared thofe which his paffion destroyed , happy chance might perhaps have rescued something worth our notice . ARISTOPH ON . This poet has left us more and better remem- brancers of his mufe ...
Page 92
... seems to have been a voluminous writer . Of DEME- TRIUS there remains only one fragment , yet we have testimony of his having been a comic poet of this period in great reputation . DIODORUS was a native of Sinope , a city of Pontus ...
... seems to have been a voluminous writer . Of DEME- TRIUS there remains only one fragment , yet we have testimony of his having been a comic poet of this period in great reputation . DIODORUS was a native of Sinope , a city of Pontus ...
Page 98
... seem , that the famous paffage was taken , in which he introduces Bacchus in perfon laying down to mankind these temperate and moral rules against the abuse of his bless ings- " Three cups of wine a prudent man may take ; " The first of ...
... seem , that the famous paffage was taken , in which he introduces Bacchus in perfon laying down to mankind these temperate and moral rules against the abuse of his bless ings- " Three cups of wine a prudent man may take ; " The first of ...
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