The Spectator ..Peter Wilson, 1755 |
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... reft is torn off ; and posterity must be contented to know , that Mrs. Margaret Clark was very pretty , but are left in the dark as to the name of her lover . T No 325 Thursday , March 13 . -Quid frustra fimulacra fugacia captas ? Quod ...
... reft is torn off ; and posterity must be contented to know , that Mrs. Margaret Clark was very pretty , but are left in the dark as to the name of her lover . T No 325 Thursday , March 13 . -Quid frustra fimulacra fugacia captas ? Quod ...
Page 22
... reft . I look upon myself to be in a ftate of war , and am forc'd to keep as constant watch ⚫ in my feat , as a governor would do that commanded a town on the frontier of an enemy's country . I have indeed pretty well fecur'd iny park ...
... reft . I look upon myself to be in a ftate of war , and am forc'd to keep as constant watch ⚫ in my feat , as a governor would do that commanded a town on the frontier of an enemy's country . I have indeed pretty well fecur'd iny park ...
Page 86
an affembly peculiarly graceful in a certain art of mixing infenfibly with the reft , and becoming one of the com- pany , instead of receiving the courtship of it . The thape of his person , and compofure of his limbs , are remarkably ...
an affembly peculiarly graceful in a certain art of mixing infenfibly with the reft , and becoming one of the com- pany , instead of receiving the courtship of it . The thape of his person , and compofure of his limbs , are remarkably ...
Page 92
... reft , you'll think it not improbable , it might enter into his thought , that such a woman as Sylvana would con- • suminate the happiness . The world is so debauched • with mean confiderations , that Hortenfius knew it would ' be ...
... reft , you'll think it not improbable , it might enter into his thought , that such a woman as Sylvana would con- • suminate the happiness . The world is so debauched • with mean confiderations , that Hortenfius knew it would ' be ...
Page 102
... reft . T DRYDEN . HE accounts which Raphael gives of the battle of angels and the creation of the world , have in them those qualifications which the critics judge requifite to an episode . They are nearly related to the principal ...
... reft . T DRYDEN . HE accounts which Raphael gives of the battle of angels and the creation of the world , have in them those qualifications which the critics judge requifite to an episode . They are nearly related to the principal ...
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