The Spectator: With Sketches of the Lives of the Authors, and Explanatory Notes : in Eight Volumes, Volume 4booksellers, 1797 - English essays |
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... heart , and act a part of continual conftraint , while nature has preferved the eyes to herfelf , that she may not be ' difguised or mifreprefented , The poor bride can give " · - " her hand , and fay , I do , A 4 THE ...
... heart , and act a part of continual conftraint , while nature has preferved the eyes to herfelf , that she may not be ' difguised or mifreprefented , The poor bride can give " · - " her hand , and fay , I do , A 4 THE ...
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... she is obliged by cruel parents to take for mercenary reafons , but at the fame time fhe cannot look as if the • loved ; her eye is full of forrow , and reluctance fits in a tear , while the offering of the facrifice is performed in ...
... she is obliged by cruel parents to take for mercenary reafons , but at the fame time fhe cannot look as if the • loved ; her eye is full of forrow , and reluctance fits in a tear , while the offering of the facrifice is performed in ...
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... She is feized with pe .. riodical fits about the time of the fubfcriptions to a new opera , and is drowned in tears after having feen · 6 man any wo- there in finer clothes than herfelf : thefe are arts of ' perfuafion purely feminine ...
... She is feized with pe .. riodical fits about the time of the fubfcriptions to a new opera , and is drowned in tears after having feen · 6 man any wo- there in finer clothes than herfelf : thefe are arts of ' perfuafion purely feminine ...
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... she is dreffed either for a ball or a birth - day . But to return to our female heads . The ladies have been for fome time in a kind of moulting feafon , with regard to that part of their drefs , having caft great quan- tities of riband ...
... she is dreffed either for a ball or a birth - day . But to return to our female heads . The ladies have been for fome time in a kind of moulting feafon , with regard to that part of their drefs , having caft great quan- tities of riband ...
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... she shall have a charm for every heart . My friend Will , who very much values himself upon his great infight into gallantry , tells me , that he can already guefs at the humour a lady is in by her hood , as the courtiers of Morocco ...
... she shall have a charm for every heart . My friend Will , who very much values himself upon his great infight into gallantry , tells me , that he can already guefs at the humour a lady is in by her hood , as the courtiers of Morocco ...
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