The Spectator: Corrected from the Originals, Volume 2George B. Whittaker, 1827 |
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... reason why they are not always the talents of the same person . His words are as follow : And hence , perhaps , may be given some reason of that common observation , " That men who have a great deal of wit , and prompt memories , have ...
... reason why they are not always the talents of the same person . His words are as follow : And hence , perhaps , may be given some reason of that common observation , " That men who have a great deal of wit , and prompt memories , have ...
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... reason , the similitudes in heroic poets , who endeavour rather to fill the mind with great con- ceptions , than to divert it with such as are new and surprising , have seldom any thing in them that can be called wit . Mr. Locke's ...
... reason , the similitudes in heroic poets , who endeavour rather to fill the mind with great con- ceptions , than to divert it with such as are new and surprising , have seldom any thing in them that can be called wit . Mr. Locke's ...
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... reason the words fire and flame are made use of to signify love . The witty poets therefore have taken an advantage from the double meaning of the word fire , to make an infinite number of witticisms . Cowley , observing the cold regard ...
... reason the words fire and flame are made use of to signify love . The witty poets therefore have taken an advantage from the double meaning of the word fire , to make an infinite number of witticisms . Cowley , observing the cold regard ...
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... reason puts in her claim for one half of it , and extravagance for the other . The only province therefore for this kind of wit , is epigram , or those little occasional poems , that in their own nature are nothing else but a tissue of ...
... reason puts in her claim for one half of it , and extravagance for the other . The only province therefore for this kind of wit , is epigram , or those little occasional poems , that in their own nature are nothing else but a tissue of ...
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... reason , truth , and nature , the measures of praise and dis- praise ; if those are for me , the generality of opinion is of no consequence against me ; if they are against me , the general opinion cannot long support me . Without ...
... reason , truth , and nature , the measures of praise and dis- praise ; if those are for me , the generality of opinion is of no consequence against me ; if they are against me , the general opinion cannot long support me . Without ...
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