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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... foon make you as charming as ever you were , fhe would make you blush as much as if you never had been fine ladies . The vicar , Madam , is fo kind as to vifit my husband , and his agreeable con- verfation has brought him to enjoy many ...
... foon make you as charming as ever you were , fhe would make you blush as much as if you never had been fine ladies . The vicar , Madam , is fo kind as to vifit my husband , and his agreeable con- verfation has brought him to enjoy many ...
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... foon as named , will be thought ca- pable of advancing the prefent ftate of mufic . Mr SPECTATOR , I AM confiderably obliged to you for your speedy publication of my laft in your's of the 18th inftant , • $ C • and am in no small hopes ...
... foon as named , will be thought ca- pable of advancing the prefent ftate of mufic . Mr SPECTATOR , I AM confiderably obliged to you for your speedy publication of my laft in your's of the 18th inftant , • $ C • and am in no small hopes ...
Page 51
... foon find out that there are many who make a figure below what their fortune or me- rit entitles them to , out of mere choice , and an elegant defire of ease and difincumbrance . It would look like romance to tell you in this age of an ...
... foon find out that there are many who make a figure below what their fortune or me- rit entitles them to , out of mere choice , and an elegant defire of ease and difincumbrance . It would look like romance to tell you in this age of an ...
Page 73
... foon after ga thering up his countenance into a more than ordinary seri- oufnefs , tell me truly ( fays he ) , do not you think Sir Andrew had a hand in the Pope's proceffion ? But without giving me time to answer , Well , well , fays ...
... foon after ga thering up his countenance into a more than ordinary seri- oufnefs , tell me truly ( fays he ) , do not you think Sir Andrew had a hand in the Pope's proceffion ? But without giving me time to answer , Well , well , fays ...
Page 82
... foon as it is brought in ; and has pro- mifed , when you have broke the ice , to own this was laid between us : and when I can come to an hearing , the young lady will fupport what we fay by her tefti- mony , that I never faw her but ...
... foon as it is brought in ; and has pro- mifed , when you have broke the ice , to own this was laid between us : and when I can come to an hearing , the young lady will fupport what we fay by her tefti- mony , that I never faw her but ...
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