The Spectator, Volume 6Alexander Chalmers D. Appleton, 1853 - Spectator (London, England : 1711) |
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... hear from all hands that you are thoroughly recon- ciled to your dirty acres , and have not too much wit to look into your own estate . After having spoken thus much of my patron , I · must take the privilege of an author in saying some ...
... hear from all hands that you are thoroughly recon- ciled to your dirty acres , and have not too much wit to look into your own estate . After having spoken thus much of my patron , I · must take the privilege of an author in saying some ...
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... hear of the death of good sir Roger , and do heartily con- dole with you upon so melancholy an occasion . I think you ought to have blackened the edges of a paper which brought us so ill news , and to have had it stamped likewise in ...
... hear of the death of good sir Roger , and do heartily con- dole with you upon so melancholy an occasion . I think you ought to have blackened the edges of a paper which brought us so ill news , and to have had it stamped likewise in ...
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... hear ; I mean , that can report what they have seen or heard ; and this through incapacity or prejudice , one of which disables almost every man who talks to you from representing things as he ought . For which reason I am come to a ...
... hear ; I mean , that can report what they have seen or heard ; and this through incapacity or prejudice , one of which disables almost every man who talks to you from representing things as he ought . For which reason I am come to a ...
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... hear from others as literally as their parts or zeal will permit , and are called " reciters . " Here was a fellow in town some years ago , who used to divert himself by telling a lie at Charing - cross in the morning at eight of the ...
... hear from others as literally as their parts or zeal will permit , and are called " reciters . " Here was a fellow in town some years ago , who used to divert himself by telling a lie at Charing - cross in the morning at eight of the ...
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... hear some of the beautiful passages , the admirer of it has repeated to me a speech of Apollo , or a de- scription of Polypheme . At other times , when I have searched for the actions of a great man , who gave a subject to the writer ...
... hear some of the beautiful passages , the admirer of it has repeated to me a speech of Apollo , or a de- scription of Polypheme . At other times , when I have searched for the actions of a great man , who gave a subject to the writer ...
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