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... racter , which so few poffefs , and of which fo few can properly judge . FOR one person who can adequate- ly relish , and enjoy a work of imagi- nation , twenty are to be found who can tafte and judge of , obfervations on familiar life ...
... racter , which so few poffefs , and of which fo few can properly judge . FOR one person who can adequate- ly relish , and enjoy a work of imagi- nation , twenty are to be found who can tafte and judge of , obfervations on familiar life ...
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... racter of Sir Trufty ; by the introduction of which he has so strangely debased and de- graded his elegant opera of Rosamond . How unhappy is he That is ty'd to a she , And fam'd for his wit and his beauty ; For of us pretty fellows ...
... racter of Sir Trufty ; by the introduction of which he has so strangely debased and de- graded his elegant opera of Rosamond . How unhappy is he That is ty'd to a she , And fam'd for his wit and his beauty ; For of us pretty fellows ...
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... racter . Addison had great skill in the use of delicate and oblique allufions . " It was expected that Plato would have taken a place next his master Socrates ; but on a fudden there was heard a great clamour of disputants at the door ...
... racter . Addison had great skill in the use of delicate and oblique allufions . " It was expected that Plato would have taken a place next his master Socrates ; but on a fudden there was heard a great clamour of disputants at the door ...
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