The Spectator ..Peter Wilson, 1755 |
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... set your readers an exercise in one of your last week's papers , I have performed mine ⚫ according to your orders , and herewith fend it you inclosed . You must know , Mr. SPECTATOR , that I am a maiden lady of a good fortune , who ...
... set your readers an exercise in one of your last week's papers , I have performed mine ⚫ according to your orders , and herewith fend it you inclosed . You must know , Mr. SPECTATOR , that I am a maiden lady of a good fortune , who ...
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... set women on their heads and ⚫ commit certain indecencies , or rather barbarities , on the limbs which they expose . But these I forbear to mention , because they cannot but be very shocking to the reader as well as the SPECTATOR . In ...
... set women on their heads and ⚫ commit certain indecencies , or rather barbarities , on the limbs which they expose . But these I forbear to mention , because they cannot but be very shocking to the reader as well as the SPECTATOR . In ...
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... set of plate , and as much china as would have furnished an India shop : These • also I chearfully granted , for fear of being father to an • Indian Pagod . Hitherto I found her demands rose upon every conceffion ; and had she gone on ...
... set of plate , and as much china as would have furnished an India shop : These • also I chearfully granted , for fear of being father to an • Indian Pagod . Hitherto I found her demands rose upon every conceffion ; and had she gone on ...
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... sets off the face of things : In vain , If none regard . Heav'n wakes with all his eyes , Whom to behold but thee , nature's defire , In whose fight all things joy , with ravishment Attracted by thy beauty still to gaze ! 2 An ...
... sets off the face of things : In vain , If none regard . Heav'n wakes with all his eyes , Whom to behold but thee , nature's defire , In whose fight all things joy , with ravishment Attracted by thy beauty still to gaze ! 2 An ...
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... set him forth in all his heavenly plumage , and represented him as alighting upon the earth , the poet concludes his description with a circumstance , which is altogether new , and imagined with the greatest strength of fancy , - Like ...
... set him forth in all his heavenly plumage , and represented him as alighting upon the earth , the poet concludes his description with a circumstance , which is altogether new , and imagined with the greatest strength of fancy , - Like ...
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Adam Æneid agreeable alſo angels anſwer appear beautiful becauſe behaviour beſt buſineſs cauſe character chearfulness confider confideration converſation defire deſcribed deſcription deſign diſcourſe endeavour eſteem eyes faid fame fays feveral fince firſt parents fome foon fublime fuch gentleman give heav'n Homer honour houſe humble fervant imagination inſtances itſelf juſt lady laſt leſs live look mankind manner maſter Menippus Milton mind miſtreſs Mohocks moſt myſelf nature neſs never night obſerve occafion Ovid paffion particular paſſage paſſed paſſion perſon pleaſed pleaſure poem poet preſent raiſe reader reaſon repreſented reſpect riſe ſame ſays ſcene ſchool ſecond ſeems ſenſe ſentiments ſet ſeveral ſhall ſhe ſhew ſhort ſhould Sir ROGER ſome ſpeak SPECTATOR ſpeculation ſpeech ſpirit ſtage ſtate ſtill ſtory ſubject ſuch ſurpriſe tell thee theſe thing thoſe thou thought tion uſe verſe Virg virtue whole whoſe