The Spectator: With Notes and a General Index, Volumes 1-2J.J. Woodward, 1836 |
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... action , and the good offices done the vanquished in the name of the Queen of England , gave both the conqueror and the captive the most lively examples of the courage and generosity of the nation he re- presented . VOLUME THE EIGHTH ...
... action , and the good offices done the vanquished in the name of the Queen of England , gave both the conqueror and the captive the most lively examples of the courage and generosity of the nation he re- presented . VOLUME THE EIGHTH ...
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... action gives new majesty to kings , resolution to heroes , and softness to lovers , thus sinking from the greatness of his behaviour , and degraded into the character of the London Prentice . I have often wished , that our tragedians ...
... action gives new majesty to kings , resolution to heroes , and softness to lovers , thus sinking from the greatness of his behaviour , and degraded into the character of the London Prentice . I have often wished , that our tragedians ...
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... action complete , I mean the keeping his head a little lower , and hiding his can- dle . ' I observed that Mr. Powell and the un- dertakers of the opera had both the same thought , and I think much about the same time , of introducing ...
... action complete , I mean the keeping his head a little lower , and hiding his can- dle . ' I observed that Mr. Powell and the un- dertakers of the opera had both the same thought , and I think much about the same time , of introducing ...
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... action little , less to words inclined ! that the whole opera is performed in an unknown tongue . We no longer under- stand the language of our own stage ; inso- much that I have often been afraid , when I have seen our Italian ...
... action little , less to words inclined ! that the whole opera is performed in an unknown tongue . We no longer under- stand the language of our own stage ; inso- much that I have often been afraid , when I have seen our Italian ...
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... action ; but betrays an interruption in every second thought , when the consciousness is employed in too fondly approving a man's own conceptions ; which sort of consciousness is what we call affectation . As the love of praise is ...
... action ; but betrays an interruption in every second thought , when the consciousness is employed in too fondly approving a man's own conceptions ; which sort of consciousness is what we call affectation . As the love of praise is ...
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