The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Volume 3G. Bell, 1882 |
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... fancy they know of women by re- flection , your lewd and vicious men believe they have learned by experience . They have seen the poor husband so misled by tricks and artifices , and , in the midst of his inquiries , so lost and ...
... fancy they know of women by re- flection , your lewd and vicious men believe they have learned by experience . They have seen the poor husband so misled by tricks and artifices , and , in the midst of his inquiries , so lost and ...
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... fancy to itself things more great , strange , or beautiful , than the eye ever saw , and is still sensible of some defect in what it has seen ; on this account it is the part of a poet to humour the imagination in its own notions , by ...
... fancy to itself things more great , strange , or beautiful , than the eye ever saw , and is still sensible of some defect in what it has seen ; on this account it is the part of a poet to humour the imagination in its own notions , by ...
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... fancy , because he has no pattern to follow in it , and must work altogether out of his own invention . There is a very odd turn of thought required for this sort of writing , and it is impossible for a poet to succeed in it , who has ...
... fancy , because he has no pattern to follow in it , and must work altogether out of his own invention . There is a very odd turn of thought required for this sort of writing , and it is impossible for a poet to succeed in it , who has ...
Contents
Use of MottosLove of Latin among the Common PeopleSignature Letters | 1 |
Letter on BashfulnessReflections on Modesty 225 Discretion and Cunning | 109 |
Letter on the Lovers Leap 229 Fragment of Sappho | 115 |
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