The Spectator, Volume 5J. Tonson, 1729 - English essays |
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... thing in any Woman's Person or Character that could ballance the * Disadvantage of an unequal Fortune , In the mean time the Son continued his Application to me , and omitted no Occafion of demonftrating the most disinterested Paffion ...
... thing in any Woman's Person or Character that could ballance the * Disadvantage of an unequal Fortune , In the mean time the Son continued his Application to me , and omitted no Occafion of demonftrating the most disinterested Paffion ...
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... Things , without any Sente of Time and Place . The poor ignorant People where I lay conceal'd , ' and now passed for a Widow , wondered I could be ' so shy and strange , as they called it , to the Squire ; and • were bribed by him to ...
... Things , without any Sente of Time and Place . The poor ignorant People where I lay conceal'd , ' and now passed for a Widow , wondered I could be ' so shy and strange , as they called it , to the Squire ; and • were bribed by him to ...
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... thing that has yet appeared to the World ; for they say the Child is to bear a Resemblance of what ' was defir'd by the Mother . I have been marry'd up- ' wards of fix Years , have had four Children , and my • Wife is now big with the ...
... thing that has yet appeared to the World ; for they say the Child is to bear a Resemblance of what ' was defir'd by the Mother . I have been marry'd up- ' wards of fix Years , have had four Children , and my • Wife is now big with the ...
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Shadowy fets off the Face of things : In vain , If none regard . Heav'n wakes with all his Eyes , Whom to behold but thee , Nature's Defire , In whose fight all things joy , with Ravishment , Attracted by thy Beauty still to gaze ! AN ...
Shadowy fets off the Face of things : In vain , If none regard . Heav'n wakes with all his Eyes , Whom to behold but thee , Nature's Defire , In whose fight all things joy , with Ravishment , Attracted by thy Beauty still to gaze ! AN ...
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... thing that is censured in Homer , by fomething parallel in Holy Writ , would have been very well pleased had they thought of confronting Vulcan's Tri- podes with Ezekiel's Wheels . RAPHAEL'S Descent to the Earth , with the Figure of his ...
... thing that is censured in Homer , by fomething parallel in Holy Writ , would have been very well pleased had they thought of confronting Vulcan's Tri- podes with Ezekiel's Wheels . RAPHAEL'S Descent to the Earth , with the Figure of his ...
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