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Page 339
If this be true , then not only pity and terror are to be moved , as the only means to bring us to virtue , but generally love to virtue and hatred to vice ; by shewing the rewards of one , and punishments of the other ; at least ...
If this be true , then not only pity and terror are to be moved , as the only means to bring us to virtue , but generally love to virtue and hatred to vice ; by shewing the rewards of one , and punishments of the other ; at least ...
Page 340
If he urge , that the general taste is depraved , his arguments to prove this can at best but evince that our poets took not the best way to raise those passions ; but experience proves against him , that these means , which they have ...
If he urge , that the general taste is depraved , his arguments to prove this can at best but evince that our poets took not the best way to raise those passions ; but experience proves against him , that these means , which they have ...
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Not long afterwards an attempt was made to revive the Spectator , at a time indeed by no means favourable to literature , when the succession of a new family to the throne filled the nation with anxiety , discord , and con- fusion ...
Not long afterwards an attempt was made to revive the Spectator , at a time indeed by no means favourable to literature , when the succession of a new family to the throne filled the nation with anxiety , discord , and con- fusion ...
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