The Spectator ..Peter Wilson, 1755 |
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... defire you to be fpeedy , if you have compaffion for inno⚫cence expofed to infamy . Octavia . · 6 T • • " N 323 ***** ******* Tuesday , March 10 . Modo vir , modo fœmina →→→→→ Sometimes a man , fometimes a woman . Virg . T HE ...
... defire you to be fpeedy , if you have compaffion for inno⚫cence expofed to infamy . Octavia . · 6 T • • " N 323 ***** ******* Tuesday , March 10 . Modo vir , modo fœmina →→→→→ Sometimes a man , fometimes a woman . Virg . T HE ...
Page 17
... defire to become your fervant . And I am the more bold now to write to your fweet felf , because I ⚫ am now my own man , and may match where I please ; for my father is taken away , and now I am come to my living which is ten yard land ...
... defire to become your fervant . And I am the more bold now to write to your fweet felf , because I ⚫ am now my own man , and may match where I please ; for my father is taken away , and now I am come to my living which is ten yard land ...
Page 19
... with the hidden moral ⚫ which you have taken notice of in feveral parts of the poem . The defign of this letter is to defire your ⚫ thoughts , SIR , · thoughts , whether there may not alfo be fome mo⚫ral N ° 325 19 THE SPECTATOR .
... with the hidden moral ⚫ which you have taken notice of in feveral parts of the poem . The defign of this letter is to defire your ⚫ thoughts , SIR , · thoughts , whether there may not alfo be fome mo⚫ral N ° 325 19 THE SPECTATOR .
Page 20
... defire , Had not a voice thus warn'd me , What thou feeft , What there thou feeft , fair creature , is th felf ; With thee it came and goes : but follow me , And I will bring thee where no fhadow ftays Thy coming , and thy foft embraces ...
... defire , Had not a voice thus warn'd me , What thou feeft , What there thou feeft , fair creature , is th felf ; With thee it came and goes : but follow me , And I will bring thee where no fhadow ftays Thy coming , and thy foft embraces ...
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... defire of you , is , to promote · a project I have fet on foot ; and upon which I have writ to fome of my friends ; and that is , that care may be taken to fecure our daughters by law , as well as our deer ; and that fome honeft ...
... defire of you , is , to promote · a project I have fet on foot ; and upon which I have writ to fome of my friends ; and that is , that care may be taken to fecure our daughters by law , as well as our deer ; and that fome honeft ...
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