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Page 78
... pleased with one ano- ther , and partake of the same common entertain- ment , I could not but fancy to myself , as the old man stood up in the middle of the pit , that he made a very proper centre to a tragic audience . Upon the ...
... pleased with one ano- ther , and partake of the same common entertain- ment , I could not but fancy to myself , as the old man stood up in the middle of the pit , that he made a very proper centre to a tragic audience . Upon the ...
Page 247
... pleased to bestow upon me ; for she gives her cast- off clothes from me to others ; some she is pleased to bestow in the house to those that neither want nor wear them , and some to hangers - on , that frequent the house daily , who ...
... pleased to bestow upon me ; for she gives her cast- off clothes from me to others ; some she is pleased to bestow in the house to those that neither want nor wear them , and some to hangers - on , that frequent the house daily , who ...
Page 337
... pleased with the cha- racter of my good acquaintance Acasto . You meet him at the tables and conversations of the wise , the impertinent , the grave , the frolic , and the witty ; and yet his own character has nothing in it that can ...
... pleased with the cha- racter of my good acquaintance Acasto . You meet him at the tables and conversations of the wise , the impertinent , the grave , the frolic , and the witty ; and yet his own character has nothing in it that can ...
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