The Spectator ..Peter Wilson, 1755 |
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... last , with an indignation arifing from a passion I then first discovered in him , he threw the papers into the fire , swearing that since he was not to read them , the man who writ them should never be • so happy as to have me read ...
... last , with an indignation arifing from a passion I then first discovered in him , he threw the papers into the fire , swearing that since he was not to read them , the man who writ them should never be • so happy as to have me read ...
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... last , has brought me in several letters , with accounts of many private lives cast into that form . I have the Rake's Journal , the Sot's Journal , the Whoremaster's Journal , and among several others a very curious piece , intitled ...
... last , has brought me in several letters , with accounts of many private lives cast into that form . I have the Rake's Journal , the Sot's Journal , the Whoremaster's Journal , and among several others a very curious piece , intitled ...
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... 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 have had • several matches offered me for these ...
... 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 have had • several matches offered me for these ...
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... last thought of it is so very noble , that I dare say my reader will pardon me the quotation . Underneath this marble bearse Lies the subject of all verse , Sidney's fifter , Pembroke's mother : Death , ere thou hast kill'd another ...
... last thought of it is so very noble , that I dare say my reader will pardon me the quotation . Underneath this marble bearse Lies the subject of all verse , Sidney's fifter , Pembroke's mother : Death , ere thou hast kill'd another ...
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... last night with an account of a young fellow's first dif- covering his paffion to his mistress . The young lady was one , it seems , who had long before conceived a favourable opinion of him , and was still in hopes that he would fome ...
... last night with an account of a young fellow's first dif- covering his paffion to his mistress . The young lady was one , it seems , who had long before conceived a favourable opinion of him , and was still in hopes that he would fome ...
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