The Spectator, Volume 5Alexander Chalmers D. Appleton, 1853 |
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... gentleman . But such representations give my reader an idea of a person blameless only , or. * This dedication includes Nos . 474-555 . • Afterwards Sir Paul Methuen , knight of the Bath . This very in- genious gentleman , whilst ...
... gentleman . But such representations give my reader an idea of a person blameless only , or. * This dedication includes Nos . 474-555 . • Afterwards Sir Paul Methuen , knight of the Bath . This very in- genious gentleman , whilst ...
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... gentleman to a friend , for whom he has a very great respect , and to whom he communicates the satisfaction he takes in retirement : the other is a letter to me occasioned by an ode written by my Lapland lover : this correspondent is so ...
... gentleman to a friend , for whom he has a very great respect , and to whom he communicates the satisfaction he takes in retirement : the other is a letter to me occasioned by an ode written by my Lapland lover : this correspondent is so ...
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... gentleman , but I can guess at the law - business you had at the Temple . If you would go down to the country , and leave off all your vanities , but your singing , let me know at my lodgings in Bow - street , Covent - garden , and you ...
... gentleman , but I can guess at the law - business you had at the Temple . If you would go down to the country , and leave off all your vanities , but your singing , let me know at my lodgings in Bow - street , Covent - garden , and you ...
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... gentleman rallies the best of any man I know ; for he forms his ridicule upon a circumstance which you are in your heart not un- willing to grant him : to wit , that you are guilty of an excess in something which is in itself laudable ...
... gentleman rallies the best of any man I know ; for he forms his ridicule upon a circumstance which you are in your heart not un- willing to grant him : to wit , that you are guilty of an excess in something which is in itself laudable ...
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Alexander Chalmers. ' That gentleman has very much the air of a general officer . ' The youth immediately put on a composed behaviour , and behaved himself suitably to the con- ceptions he believed the company had of him . It is to be ...
Alexander Chalmers. ' That gentleman has very much the air of a general officer . ' The youth immediately put on a composed behaviour , and behaved himself suitably to the con- ceptions he believed the company had of him . It is to be ...
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