The Spectator ..Peter Wilson, 1755 |
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... reader on Tuesday 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 ...
... reader on Tuesday 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 ...
Page 11
... readers , I should not have published it : but as it is only the picture of a life filled with a fashio- nable kind of gaiety and laziness , I shall fet down five days of it , as I have received it from the hand of my fair correfpondent ...
... readers , I should not have published it : but as it is only the picture of a life filled with a fashio- nable kind of gaiety and laziness , I shall fet down five days of it , as I have received it from the hand of my fair correfpondent ...
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... 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 , Fair and learn'd , and good as she , Time shall throw a ...
... 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 , Fair and learn'd , and good as she , Time shall throw a ...
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... reader as well as the SPECTATOR . In this manner they carry on a war against mankind ; and by ⚫ the standing maxims of their policy , are to enter into no alliances but one , and that is offenfive and defenfive with all bawdy - houses ...
... reader as well as the SPECTATOR . In this manner they carry on a war against mankind ; and by ⚫ the standing maxims of their policy , are to enter into no alliances but one , and that is offenfive and defenfive with all bawdy - houses ...
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... reader may observe at the same view , how amiable ignorance may be when it is shewn in its fimplicities , and how detestable in barbari- ties . It is written by an honest countryman to his mistress , and came to the hands of a lady of ...
... reader may observe at the same view , how amiable ignorance may be when it is shewn in its fimplicities , and how detestable in barbari- ties . It is written by an honest countryman to his mistress , and came to the hands of a lady of ...
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