The Spectator: Corrected from the Originals, Volume 5George B. Whittaker, 1827 |
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Page 122
... thought of consider- ing how I did it before I perused your Speculation upon that subject . I scarce find a single action in these five days that I can thoroughly approve of , excepting the working upon the violet - leaf , which I am ...
... thought of consider- ing how I did it before I perused your Speculation upon that subject . I scarce find a single action in these five days that I can thoroughly approve of , excepting the working upon the violet - leaf , which I am ...
Page 173
... thought as the former . We are , in some measure , prepared for such an incident by the description of the giants ' war , which we meet with among the ancient poets . What still made this circumstance the more proper for the poet's use ...
... thought as the former . We are , in some measure , prepared for such an incident by the description of the giants ' war , which we meet with among the ancient poets . What still made this circumstance the more proper for the poet's use ...
Page 308
... thought things were pretty well drawing to a conclusion , her father happening to hear that I had formerly boarded with a surgeon , the old put forbad me his house , and within a fort- night after married his daughter to a fox - hunter ...
... thought things were pretty well drawing to a conclusion , her father happening to hear that I had formerly boarded with a surgeon , the old put forbad me his house , and within a fort- night after married his daughter to a fox - hunter ...
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