The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Volume 4Bohn, 1854 |
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... kind of this crime , which has not been so much spoken to ; I mean that abominable practice of party - lying . This vice is so very predominant among us at present , that a man is thought of no principles , who does not propagate a ...
... kind of this crime , which has not been so much spoken to ; I mean that abominable practice of party - lying . This vice is so very predominant among us at present , that a man is thought of no principles , who does not propagate a ...
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... kind , the reader comes in for half of the performance ; everything appears to him like a discovery of his own ; he is busied all the while in applying characters and circumstances , and is in this respect both a reader and a composer ...
... kind , the reader comes in for half of the performance ; everything appears to him like a discovery of his own ; he is busied all the while in applying characters and circumstances , and is in this respect both a reader and a composer ...
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... kind message that was sent him from the widow lady whom he had made love to the forty last years of his life ; but this only proved a lightning before his death . He has bequeathed to this lady , as a token of his love , a great pearl ...
... kind message that was sent him from the widow lady whom he had made love to the forty last years of his life ; but this only proved a lightning before his death . He has bequeathed to this lady , as a token of his love , a great pearl ...
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... kind , in perusing a poem that is just published " On the Prospect of Peace , " and which , I hope , will meet with such a reward from its patrons , as so noble a performance deserves . I was particularly well - pleased to find that the ...
... kind , in perusing a poem that is just published " On the Prospect of Peace , " and which , I hope , will meet with such a reward from its patrons , as so noble a performance deserves . I was particularly well - pleased to find that the ...
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... kind of poetry The way of writing , here very justly condemned , sprung up with the revival of letters ; and was to be expected in that state of things , when every poet was in effect a school - boy ; when those agreeable stories of the ...
... kind of poetry The way of writing , here very justly condemned , sprung up with the revival of letters ; and was to be expected in that state of things , when every poet was in effect a school - boy ; when those agreeable stories of the ...
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