The Spectator ..Peter Wilson, 1755 |
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... lady whom he married in • obedience to his father . In a word , he thuns and difowns me . Should I come to the house and confront him , the father would join in fupporting him against me , though he believed my flory ; fhould I talk it ...
... lady whom he married in • obedience to his father . In a word , he thuns and difowns me . Should I come to the house and confront him , the father would join in fupporting him against me , though he believed my flory ; fhould I talk it ...
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... lady of a good fortune , who have had feveral matches offered me for these ten years laft paft , and have at prefent warm applications made to me by As I am at my own difpofal , I a very pretty fellow . come up to town every winter ...
... lady of a good fortune , who have had feveral matches offered me for these ten years laft paft , and have at prefent warm applications made to me by As I am at my own difpofal , I a very pretty fellow . come up to town every winter ...
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... lady Blithe and her fifter , having before heard they were gone out of town that day . From fix to eleven . At Boffet . Mem . Never fet again upon the ace of diamonds . THURSDAY . From eleven at night to eight in the morning . Dream'd ...
... lady Blithe and her fifter , having before heard they were gone out of town that day . From fix to eleven . At Boffet . Mem . Never fet again upon the ace of diamonds . THURSDAY . From eleven at night to eight in the morning . Dream'd ...
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... lady Loveday going to be married to a young fellow that is not worth a groat . Mifs Prue gone into the country . Tom Townley has red hair . Mem . Mrs. Spitely whispered in my ear that the had fomething to tell me about Mr. Froth , I am ...
... lady Loveday going to be married to a young fellow that is not worth a groat . Mifs Prue gone into the country . Tom Townley has red hair . Mem . Mrs. Spitely whispered in my ear that the had fomething to tell me about Mr. Froth , I am ...
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... lady , who feems to have been of a temper very much different from that of Clarinda . The last thought of it is to very noble , that I dare fay my reader will pardon me the quotation , Underneath this marble bearse Lies the fubject of ...
... lady , who feems to have been of a temper very much different from that of Clarinda . The last thought of it is to very noble , that I dare fay my reader will pardon me the quotation , Underneath this marble bearse Lies the fubject of ...
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