The Spectator, Volume 5Payne, Rivington, 1799 - English essays |
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Page 182
... lately come from Italy . For my own part , to be free with you , I would rather hear an English fiddle : though I durft not fhew my diflike whilst I was in the play - houfe , it being my chance to fit the very next man to one of the ...
... lately come from Italy . For my own part , to be free with you , I would rather hear an English fiddle : though I durft not fhew my diflike whilst I was in the play - houfe , it being my chance to fit the very next man to one of the ...
Page 183
... lately return'd from his tra- vels , has more than once affured me , namely , that there was lately dug up at Rome the ftatue of a Momus , who holds an inftrument in his right - hand very much refembling our modern cat - call . There ...
... lately return'd from his tra- vels , has more than once affured me , namely , that there was lately dug up at Rome the ftatue of a Momus , who holds an inftrument in his right - hand very much refembling our modern cat - call . There ...
Page 297
... lately out of the fecond chapter of Solomon's Song * , it occasioned my looking into it ; and upon reading it I thought the ideas fo exquifitely foft and tender , that I could not help making this paraphafe of it ; which , now it is ...
... lately out of the fecond chapter of Solomon's Song * , it occasioned my looking into it ; and upon reading it I thought the ideas fo exquifitely foft and tender , that I could not help making this paraphafe of it ; which , now it is ...
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