The Spectator: With Sketches of the Lives of the Authors, an Index, and Explanatory Notes, Volume 6James Crissy, 1832 - Spectator |
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... woman had any hand in it . He afterwards fell into an account of the diver- sions which had passed in his house during the holydays ; for Sir Roger , after the laudable cus- tom of his ancestors , always keeps open house at Christmas ...
... woman had any hand in it . He afterwards fell into an account of the diver- sions which had passed in his house during the holydays ; for Sir Roger , after the laudable cus- tom of his ancestors , always keeps open house at Christmas ...
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... woman of chastity in the house , and come off with applause ; for an insult upon all the ten commandments , with the little critics , is not so bad as the breach of an unity of time and place . Half wits do not apprehend the miseries ...
... woman of chastity in the house , and come off with applause ; for an insult upon all the ten commandments , with the little critics , is not so bad as the breach of an unity of time and place . Half wits do not apprehend the miseries ...
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... woman . ' If this comes to the knowledge of my female admirers , I shall be very hard put to it to bring myself off handsome- ly . In the meanwhile I give you this account , that you may take care hereafter not to betray any of your ...
... woman . ' If this comes to the knowledge of my female admirers , I shall be very hard put to it to bring myself off handsome- ly . In the meanwhile I give you this account , that you may take care hereafter not to betray any of your ...
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... woman , and a horse . * The two first are married , in which state the little cavalier has so well acquitted himself that his lady is with child . The big - bellied woman and her husband , with their little whimsical palfrey , are so ...
... woman , and a horse . * The two first are married , in which state the little cavalier has so well acquitted himself that his lady is with child . The big - bellied woman and her husband , with their little whimsical palfrey , are so ...
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... woman ? -Nay , they may well laugh at it . And did no one tell you any thing of the behaviour of your lover , Mr. What - d'ye - call , last night ? But perhaps it is no- thing to you that he is to be married to young Mrs. on Tuesday ...
... woman ? -Nay , they may well laugh at it . And did no one tell you any thing of the behaviour of your lover , Mr. What - d'ye - call , last night ? But perhaps it is no- thing to you that he is to be married to young Mrs. on Tuesday ...
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