The Spectator ..Peter Wilson, 1755 |
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... ftill in hopes that he would fome time or other make his advances . As he was one day talking with her in company of her two fifters , the converfation happening to turn upon love , each of the young ladies was , by way of rallery ...
... ftill in hopes that he would fome time or other make his advances . As he was one day talking with her in company of her two fifters , the converfation happening to turn upon love , each of the young ladies was , by way of rallery ...
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... ftill feveral nations in the world so very barbarous as not to have any looking - glaffes among them ; and that he had lately read a voyage to the South - Sea , in which it is faid , that the ladies of Chili always dreffed their heads ...
... ftill feveral nations in the world so very barbarous as not to have any looking - glaffes among them ; and that he had lately read a voyage to the South - Sea , in which it is faid , that the ladies of Chili always dreffed their heads ...
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... ftill afleep , with an unusual difcompofure in her looks . The pofture , in which he regards her , is defcrib'd with a wonderful tendernefs , as the whisper , with which he awakens her , is the fofteft that ever was convey'd to a ...
... ftill afleep , with an unusual difcompofure in her looks . The pofture , in which he regards her , is defcrib'd with a wonderful tendernefs , as the whisper , with which he awakens her , is the fofteft that ever was convey'd to a ...
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... ftill to gaze ! An injudicious poet would have made Adam talk thro ' the whole work in fuch fentiments as thefe : But flattery and falfhood are not the courtship of Milton's Adam , and could not be heard by Eve in the state of innocence ...
... ftill to gaze ! An injudicious poet would have made Adam talk thro ' the whole work in fuch fentiments as thefe : But flattery and falfhood are not the courtship of Milton's Adam , and could not be heard by Eve in the state of innocence ...
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... ftill , in conformity with the Cherubims , whom they accompanied . There is no queftion but Milton had this circumstance in his thoughts , becaufe in the following book he describes the chariot of the Meffiah with living wheels ...
... ftill , in conformity with the Cherubims , whom they accompanied . There is no queftion but Milton had this circumstance in his thoughts , becaufe in the following book he describes the chariot of the Meffiah with living wheels ...
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