“The” Spectator: With Historical and Biographical Preface, and Explanatory Notes, Volume 2J. Richardson and Company, 1823 |
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... - men of the city of London ; it was taken down in the year 1762 , and the prisoners removed to the London workhouse . my mind what tempers were most apt to fall into N ° 82 . 11 SPECTATOR . N° 82. MONDAY, JUNE 4, 1711. ...
... - men of the city of London ; it was taken down in the year 1762 , and the prisoners removed to the London workhouse . my mind what tempers were most apt to fall into N ° 82 . 11 SPECTATOR . N° 82. MONDAY, JUNE 4, 1711. ...
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With Historical and Biographical Preface, and Explanatory Notes. my mind what tempers were most apt to fall into this error of life , as well as the misfortune it must needs be to languish under such pressures . As for myself , my ...
With Historical and Biographical Preface, and Explanatory Notes. my mind what tempers were most apt to fall into this error of life , as well as the misfortune it must needs be to languish under such pressures . As for myself , my ...
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... temper , or rather impertinent humour of prying into all sorts of writing , with my natural aversion to loquacity , give me a good deal of em- ployment when I enter any house in the country ; for I cannot for my heart leave a room ...
... temper , or rather impertinent humour of prying into all sorts of writing , with my natural aversion to loquacity , give me a good deal of em- ployment when I enter any house in the country ; for I cannot for my heart leave a room ...
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... tempered with the greatest candour , and was one of the finest critics as well as the best poets of his age , had a numerous collection of old English ballads , and took a particular pleasure in the reading of them . I can affirm the ...
... tempered with the greatest candour , and was one of the finest critics as well as the best poets of his age , had a numerous collection of old English ballads , and took a particular pleasure in the reading of them . I can affirm the ...
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... tempers by their faces , have regarded the features much more than the air . Martial has a pretty epigram on this subject : Crine ruber , niger ore , brevis pede , lumine læsus : Rem magnam præstas , Zoile , si bonus es . EPIG . liv ...
... tempers by their faces , have regarded the features much more than the air . Martial has a pretty epigram on this subject : Crine ruber , niger ore , brevis pede , lumine læsus : Rem magnam præstas , Zoile , si bonus es . EPIG . liv ...
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