The Spectator, Volume 5J. Tonson, 1729 - English essays |
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Page 14
... fay my Reader will pardon me the Quotation . On the Countess Dowager of Pembroke . Underneath this Marble Hearse Lies the Subject of all Verse , Sidney's Sifter , Pembroke's Mother : Death , ere thou hast kill'd another , Fair , and ...
... fay my Reader will pardon me the Quotation . On the Countess Dowager of Pembroke . Underneath this Marble Hearse Lies the Subject of all Verse , Sidney's Sifter , Pembroke's Mother : Death , ere thou hast kill'd another , Fair , and ...
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... fays Sir ROGER , if I had not been engaged , perhaps I could not have done better . HIS Discourse was broken off by his Man's telling him he had called a Coach . Upon our going to it , after having caft his Eye upon the Wheels , he ...
... fays Sir ROGER , if I had not been engaged , perhaps I could not have done better . HIS Discourse was broken off by his Man's telling him he had called a Coach . Upon our going to it , after having caft his Eye upon the Wheels , he ...
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... fays Sir ROGER ; you ought to lock up your Kings better ; they will carry off the Body too , if you don't take care . THE glorious Names of Henry the Fifth and Queen Elizabeth gave the Knight great Opportunities of fhin- ing , and of ...
... fays Sir ROGER ; you ought to lock up your Kings better ; they will carry off the Body too , if you don't take care . THE glorious Names of Henry the Fifth and Queen Elizabeth gave the Knight great Opportunities of fhin- ing , and of ...
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... fays he will buy them himself . I asked him for Horace t'other Day , and he told me in a Passion , he did not be- lieve I was fit for it , but only my Master had a Mind to ' make him think I had got a great way in my Learning . I am ...
... fays he will buy them himself . I asked him for Horace t'other Day , and he told me in a Passion , he did not be- lieve I was fit for it , but only my Master had a Mind to ' make him think I had got a great way in my Learning . I am ...
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... fay , that Capering and Tumbling is now preferred to , and supplies the Place of just and regular Dancing on our Theatres . It is there- fore , in my opinion , high time that some one should come in to its afssistance , and relieve it ...
... fay , that Capering and Tumbling is now preferred to , and supplies the Place of just and regular Dancing on our Theatres . It is there- fore , in my opinion , high time that some one should come in to its afssistance , and relieve it ...
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