The Spectator ..Peter Wilson, 1755 |
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Page 15
... imagination , that they formed in it a fhort morning's dream , which I fhall communicate to my reader , rather as the firft sketch and outlines of a vifion , than as a finished piece . I dreamt that I was admitted into a long fpacious ...
... imagination , that they formed in it a fhort morning's dream , which I fhall communicate to my reader , rather as the firft sketch and outlines of a vifion , than as a finished piece . I dreamt that I was admitted into a long fpacious ...
Page 45
... imagination nor her health would ever give her to know that fhe is turned of twenty ; but that in the midst of these pretty foftneffes , and airs of delicacy and attraction , fhe has a tall daughter within a fortnight of fifteen , who ...
... imagination nor her health would ever give her to know that fhe is turned of twenty ; but that in the midst of these pretty foftneffes , and airs of delicacy and attraction , fhe has a tall daughter within a fortnight of fifteen , who ...
Page 47
... imagination as far as poffible from what they had long themselves forgot , and ended his difcourfe with a fly commendation of the doctrine of Platonick love ; at the fame time he ran over , with a laughing eye , Craftin's thin legs ...
... imagination as far as poffible from what they had long themselves forgot , and ended his difcourfe with a fly commendation of the doctrine of Platonick love ; at the fame time he ran over , with a laughing eye , Craftin's thin legs ...
Page 80
... imagination and good - breeding are added to a sweet difpofition , they qualify it to be one of the greatest bleffings , as well as pleasures of life , Men would come into company with ten times the pleasure they do , if they were fure ...
... imagination and good - breeding are added to a sweet difpofition , they qualify it to be one of the greatest bleffings , as well as pleasures of life , Men would come into company with ten times the pleasure they do , if they were fure ...
Page 83
... imagination , that I fancy will not be altogether unlike what will be found in fome page or other of this imaginary historian . It was under this reign , fays he , that the SPEC- TATOR publifh'd those little diurnal eflays which are ...
... imagination , that I fancy will not be altogether unlike what will be found in fome page or other of this imaginary historian . It was under this reign , fays he , that the SPEC- TATOR publifh'd those little diurnal eflays which are ...
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