The Spectator ...John Sharpe, 1803 |
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Page 27
... observed the married condition unhappy , but for want of judgment or temper in the man . The truth is , we generally make love in a style , and with sentiments , very unfit for ordinary life : they are half theatrical , half romantic ...
... observed the married condition unhappy , but for want of judgment or temper in the man . The truth is , we generally make love in a style , and with sentiments , very unfit for ordinary life : they are half theatrical , half romantic ...
Page 106
... observed , since we were all , as I just now told you , near relations ; but Mrs. Mohair herself has been swung there , and she invents all this malice , because it was observed she had crooked legs , of which I was an eye - witness ...
... observed , since we were all , as I just now told you , near relations ; but Mrs. Mohair herself has been swung there , and she invents all this malice , because it was observed she had crooked legs , of which I was an eye - witness ...
Page 364
... observed in this art , there is no manner of reason why it should not extend to heroic poetry as well as tragedy . But we find it so little observed in Homer , that his Achilles is placed in the greatest point of glory and success ...
... observed in this art , there is no manner of reason why it should not extend to heroic poetry as well as tragedy . But we find it so little observed in Homer , that his Achilles is placed in the greatest point of glory and success ...
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