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"Spectator, No. 211"
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Date: Thursday, November 1, 1711
"Horace has a Thought which is something akin to this, when, in order to excuse himself to his Mistress, for an Invective which he had written against her, and to account for that unreasonable Fury with which the Heart of Man is often transported, he tells us that, when Prometheus made his Man of...
preview | full record— Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)
Date: Thursday, November 1, 1711
"But upon turning this Plan to and fro in my Thoughts, I observed so many unaccountable Humours in Man, that I did not know out of what Animals to fetch them."
preview | full record— Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)
Date: Thursday, November 1, 1711
"Ever since your Spectator of Tuesday last came into our Family, my Husband is pleased to call me his Oceana, because the foolish old Poet that you have translated says, That the Souls of some Women are made of Sea-Water. This, it seems, has encouraged my Sauce-Box to be witty upon me."
preview | full record— Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)
