The Spectator, Volume 5William Durell and Company, 1810 - English essays |
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Page 94
... pleased that he had not given a decisive opinion upon the new - fash- ioned hoods ; " for to tell you truly , " says she , " I was afraid he would have made us ashamed to shew our heads . " Now , Sir , you must know , since this unlucky ...
... pleased that he had not given a decisive opinion upon the new - fash- ioned hoods ; " for to tell you truly , " says she , " I was afraid he would have made us ashamed to shew our heads . " Now , Sir , you must know , since this unlucky ...
Page 297
... pleased with nothing in a poet which has not life and manners ascribed to it ; but for my own part , I am pleased most with those passages in this description which carry in them a greater measure of probability , and are such as might ...
... pleased with nothing in a poet which has not life and manners ascribed to it ; but for my own part , I am pleased most with those passages in this description which carry in them a greater measure of probability , and are such as might ...
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... pleased with nothing in a poet which has not life and manners ascribed to it ; but for my own part , I am pleased most with those passages in this description which carry in them a greater measure of probability , and are such as might ...
... pleased with nothing in a poet which has not life and manners ascribed to it ; but for my own part , I am pleased most with those passages in this description which carry in them a greater measure of probability , and are such as might ...
Contents
VOL V | 25 |
LETTER from a Coquette to a new mar | 254 |
Letters from an old Bachelorfrom Lovers | 260 |
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