The Spectator ..Peter Wilson, 1755 |
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... laft , with an indignation arifing from a paffion I then firft difcovered in him , he threw the papers into the fire , fwearing that fince he was not to read them , the man who writ them fhould never be fo happy as to have me read them ...
... laft , with an indignation arifing from a paffion I then firft difcovered in him , he threw the papers into the fire , fwearing that fince he was not to read them , the man who writ them fhould never be fo happy as to have me read them ...
Page 10
... laft , has brought me in feveral letters , with accounts of many private lives caft into that form . I have the Rake's Journal , the Sor's Journal , the Whoremafter's Journal , and among feveral others a very curious piece , intitled ...
... laft , has brought me in feveral letters , with accounts of many private lives caft into that form . I have the Rake's Journal , the Sor's Journal , the Whoremafter's Journal , and among feveral others a very curious piece , intitled ...
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... 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 , and pafs my time in it after the manner you will find in the following journal , which ...
... 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 , and pafs my time in it after the manner you will find in the following journal , which ...
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... laft nights lecture on these natural mirrours , as it feems to bear fome relation to the following letter , which I received the day before . " I Have read your laft Saturday's obfervations on the fourth book of Milton with great ...
... laft nights lecture on these natural mirrours , as it feems to bear fome relation to the following letter , which I received the day before . " I Have read your laft Saturday's obfervations on the fourth book of Milton with great ...
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... laft confideration urged by my querift is fo ftrong , that I cannot forbear cloting with it . The paffage he alludes to , is part of Eve's Speech to Adam , and one of the most beautiful paffages in the whole poem . That day I oft ...
... laft confideration urged by my querift is fo ftrong , that I cannot forbear cloting with it . The paffage he alludes to , is part of Eve's Speech to Adam , and one of the most beautiful paffages in the whole poem . That day I oft ...
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Adam Æneid affurance alfo angels arife bagnio beautiful becauſe behaviour character chearful chearfulneſs circumftances confequence confider confideration converfation defcribed defcription defign defire difcourfe dreffed faid fame fatire fays fecond fecret feems felf felves fenfe fent fentiments feven feveral fhall fhew fhort fhould fince firft firſt fome fomething foon fpeak fpirit ftill fubject fublime fuch gentleman give heav'n hiftory himſelf honeft honour houſe humble fervant imagination inftances itſelf juft Jupiter lady laft laſt lefs loft look mafter mankind manner Menippus Milton mind modeft moft moſt muft muſt myſelf nature never night obferved occafion Ovid paffage paffed paffion Paradife perfon pleafing pleaſed pleaſure poem poet prefent raiſe reader reafon reft reprefented rife ſhall ſhe Sir ROGER ſpeak SPECTATOR tell thee thefe themſelves theſe thing thofe thoſe thou thought tion uſe Virg virtue whofe whole worfe