The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Volume 4Bohn, 1854 |
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Page 19
... writer is obliged to have recourse to dream and fiction . " C SIR , No. 500. FRIDAY , OCTOBER 3 . -Huc natas adjice septem , Et totidem juvenes , et mox generosque nurusque . Quærite nunc , habeat quam nostra superbia causam . OVID ...
... writer is obliged to have recourse to dream and fiction . " C SIR , No. 500. FRIDAY , OCTOBER 3 . -Huc natas adjice septem , Et totidem juvenes , et mox generosque nurusque . Quærite nunc , habeat quam nostra superbia causam . OVID ...
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... writing : some read men's fortunes on the stars , as others have searched after them in the entrails of beasts , or the flights of birds . Men of the best sense have been touched , more or less , with these groundless horrors and ...
... writing : some read men's fortunes on the stars , as others have searched after them in the entrails of beasts , or the flights of birds . Men of the best sense have been touched , more or less , with these groundless horrors and ...
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... writers ; nay , his own friends shake their heads at him , and consider him in no other light than as an officious tool or a well - meaning idiot . When it was formerly the fashion to husband a lie , and trump it up in some ...
... writers ; nay , his own friends shake their heads at him , and consider him in no other light than as an officious tool or a well - meaning idiot . When it was formerly the fashion to husband a lie , and trump it up in some ...
Page 31
... writers , both ancient and modern , have distinguished themselves among one another , according to the perfection at which they have arrived in this art . How many devices have been made use of to render this bitter potion palatable ...
... writers , both ancient and modern , have distinguished themselves among one another , according to the perfection at which they have arrived in this art . How many devices have been made use of to render this bitter potion palatable ...
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... writing which is the occasion of it . For this reason the Absalon and Achitophel was one of the most popular poems that ever appeared in English . The poetry is indeed very fine , but had it been much finer it would not have so much ...
... writing which is the occasion of it . For this reason the Absalon and Achitophel was one of the most popular poems that ever appeared in English . The poetry is indeed very fine , but had it been much finer it would not have so much ...
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