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Page 11
... town a sort of people who pretend to wit , and write lampoons : I have lately been the sub- ject of one of them . The scribbler had not genius enough in verse to turn my age , as , indeed , I am an old maid , into raillery , for ...
... town a sort of people who pretend to wit , and write lampoons : I have lately been the sub- ject of one of them . The scribbler had not genius enough in verse to turn my age , as , indeed , I am an old maid , into raillery , for ...
Page 28
... town , promising for my encouragement , that I shall have as good a cock - loft as any gentleman in the square ; to which the Honourable ODDLY ENVILLE Esq . always adds , like a jack - a - napes as he is , that he hopes I will be as ...
... town , promising for my encouragement , that I shall have as good a cock - loft as any gentleman in the square ; to which the Honourable ODDLY ENVILLE Esq . always adds , like a jack - a - napes as he is , that he hopes I will be as ...
Page 34
... town with elderly fops , and superannuated coquettes . * CANIDIA , a lady of this latter species , passed by me yesterday * Lord OGLEBY , in the Clandestine Marriage , is an ad- mirable picture of an old beau wishing to have the ...
... town with elderly fops , and superannuated coquettes . * CANIDIA , a lady of this latter species , passed by me yesterday * Lord OGLEBY , in the Clandestine Marriage , is an ad- mirable picture of an old beau wishing to have the ...
Page 54
... town . There is something so mean and inhuman in a direct Smithfield bargain for children , that if this lover carries his point , and observes the rules he pretends to follow , I do not only wish him success , but also that it may ...
... town . There is something so mean and inhuman in a direct Smithfield bargain for children , that if this lover carries his point , and observes the rules he pretends to follow , I do not only wish him success , but also that it may ...
Page 58
... town ; and that Round - Court may re- main a receptacle for buyers of a more soft education . And your Petitioners , & c . ' *** The petition of the New - Exchange , concerning the arts of buying and selling , and particularly valuing ...
... town ; and that Round - Court may re- main a receptacle for buyers of a more soft education . And your Petitioners , & c . ' *** The petition of the New - Exchange , concerning the arts of buying and selling , and particularly valuing ...
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