The Spectator. ...S. Powell, 1735 |
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... live at a Diftance from the fashionable World ; but as it is a Distinction of a very fin- gular Nature , and what perhaps may never meet with a Parallel , I think I should not have difcharged the Office of a faithful SPECTATOR , had I ...
... live at a Diftance from the fashionable World ; but as it is a Distinction of a very fin- gular Nature , and what perhaps may never meet with a Parallel , I think I should not have difcharged the Office of a faithful SPECTATOR , had I ...
Page 6
... live under thefe conftant Appre- henfions , and ftill go on to encrease the Cause of them . Can there be a more low and feivile Condition , than to be afhamed , or afraid , to fee any one Man breathing ? Yet he that is much in Debt , is ...
... live under thefe conftant Appre- henfions , and ftill go on to encrease the Cause of them . Can there be a more low and feivile Condition , than to be afhamed , or afraid , to fee any one Man breathing ? Yet he that is much in Debt , is ...
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... lives in a State of invincible Defire and Impotence , and always burns in the Purfuit of what he always defpairs to poffefs . It is for this Reason ( fays Plato ) that the Souls of the Dead appear frequently in Cemeteries , and hover ...
... lives in a State of invincible Defire and Impotence , and always burns in the Purfuit of what he always defpairs to poffefs . It is for this Reason ( fays Plato ) that the Souls of the Dead appear frequently in Cemeteries , and hover ...
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... lives the Lady Honoria , a Widow about the Age of Forty , of a healthy Conftitution , gay Tem- per , and elegant Perfon . She dreffes a little too much like a Girl , affects a childish Fondness in the Tone of her Voice , fometimes a ...
... lives the Lady Honoria , a Widow about the Age of Forty , of a healthy Conftitution , gay Tem- per , and elegant Perfon . She dreffes a little too much like a Girl , affects a childish Fondness in the Tone of her Voice , fometimes a ...
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... live almoft upon an Equality in Converfa- tion ; and as Honoria has given Flavia to understand , that it is ill - bred to be always calling Mother , Flavia is as well pleafed never to be called Child . It happens by this Means , that ...
... live almoft upon an Equality in Converfa- tion ; and as Honoria has given Flavia to understand , that it is ill - bred to be always calling Mother , Flavia is as well pleafed never to be called Child . It happens by this Means , that ...
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