The Spectator: Corrected from the Originals, Volume 5George B. Whittaker, 1827 |
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... pleased with the following letter , that I am in hopes it will not be a disagreeable present to the public . SIR , THOUGH I believe none of your readers more admire your agreeable manner of working up trifles than myself , yet as your ...
... pleased with the following letter , that I am in hopes it will not be a disagreeable present to the public . SIR , THOUGH I believe none of your readers more admire your agreeable manner of working up trifles than myself , yet as your ...
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... pleased with nothing in a poet which has not life and manners ascribed to it ; but for my own part , I am pleased most with those passages in this description which carry in them a greater measure of probability , and are such as might ...
... pleased with nothing in a poet which has not life and manners ascribed to it ; but for my own part , I am pleased most with those passages in this description which carry in them a greater measure of probability , and are such as might ...
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... pleased with the advantage- ous situation fortune had given me in placing me so near two gentlemen , from one of whom I was sure to hear such reflections on the several incidents of the play as pure nature suggested , and from the other ...
... pleased with the advantage- ous situation fortune had given me in placing me so near two gentlemen , from one of whom I was sure to hear such reflections on the several incidents of the play as pure nature suggested , and from the other ...
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