The Spectator ..Peter Wilson, 1755 |
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... faid , that the ladies of Chili always dressed their heads over a bason of water . I am the more particular in my account of WILL'S last nights lecture on these natural mirrours , as it feems to bear some relation to the following ...
... faid , that the ladies of Chili always dressed their heads over a bason of water . I am the more particular in my account of WILL'S last nights lecture on these natural mirrours , as it feems to bear some relation to the following ...
Page 21
... faid , And locks , and bolts , and iron bars , Might have preserv'd one innocent maiden - head ; But Venus laugh'd , & c . Mr. SPECTATOR , Y COWLEY .. OUR correspordent's letter relating to For- tune - Hunters , and your subsequent ...
... faid , And locks , and bolts , and iron bars , Might have preserv'd one innocent maiden - head ; But Venus laugh'd , & c . Mr. SPECTATOR , Y COWLEY .. OUR correspordent's letter relating to For- tune - Hunters , and your subsequent ...
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... faid unto me , Rise up , my love , my fair one , and come away ; for lo the winter is past , the rain is over and gone , the flowers appear on the earth , the time of the finging of birds is come , and the voice of the turtle is beard ...
... faid unto me , Rise up , my love , my fair one , and come away ; for lo the winter is past , the rain is over and gone , the flowers appear on the earth , the time of the finging of birds is come , and the voice of the turtle is beard ...
Page 37
... faid nothing of her in his Chronicle . We were then conveyed to the two coronation chairs , where my old friend after having heard that the ftone underneath the most ancient of them , which was brought from Scotland , was called Jacob's ...
... faid nothing of her in his Chronicle . We were then conveyed to the two coronation chairs , where my old friend after having heard that the ftone underneath the most ancient of them , which was brought from Scotland , was called Jacob's ...
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... faid Sir ROGER , was the Committee , which I should not have gone to neither , had not I been told before - hand that it was a good church of England comedy . He then proceeded to inquire of me who this distressed Mother was ; and upon ...
... faid Sir ROGER , was the Committee , which I should not have gone to neither , had not I been told before - hand that it was a good church of England comedy . He then proceeded to inquire of me who this distressed Mother was ; and upon ...
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