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S MY LORD , Imilitude of manners and studies is usually mentioned as one of the strongest motives to affection and esteem ; but the paffionate veneration I have for your Lordship , I think , flows from an admiration of qualities in You ...
S MY LORD , Imilitude of manners and studies is usually mentioned as one of the strongest motives to affection and esteem ; but the paffionate veneration I have for your Lordship , I think , flows from an admiration of qualities in You ...
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When I was in the theatre the time above - mentioned , Ihad the curiofity to count the patches on both sides , and found .the - tory patches to be about twenty stronger than the whig ; but to make amends for this small inequality ...
When I was in the theatre the time above - mentioned , Ihad the curiofity to count the patches on both sides , and found .the - tory patches to be about twenty stronger than the whig ; but to make amends for this small inequality ...
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... tho * diff'rent ways they run ; Some to undo , and some to be undone ; I say , when I behold this vaft variety of persons and bumours , with the pains they both take for the accomplishment of the ends mentioned in the above verses ...
... tho * diff'rent ways they run ; Some to undo , and some to be undone ; I say , when I behold this vaft variety of persons and bumours , with the pains they both take for the accomplishment of the ends mentioned in the above verses ...
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Observing an old man ( who was the same person I before mentioned , as the only artist that was at work on this side of the gallery ) creeping up and down from one picture to another , and retouching all the fine pieces that stood ...
Observing an old man ( who was the same person I before mentioned , as the only artist that was at work on this side of the gallery ) creeping up and down from one picture to another , and retouching all the fine pieces that stood ...
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The account he gives both of the prince and this his faithful friend , will not be improper to insert here , because I may have occasion to mention many of their conversations , into which these memorials of them may give light ...
The account he gives both of the prince and this his faithful friend , will not be improper to insert here , because I may have occasion to mention many of their conversations , into which these memorials of them may give light ...
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| Title | The Spectator .. Volume 2 of The Spectator |
| Publisher | Peter Wilson, 1755 |
| Original from | The British Library |
| Digitized | 2 Dec 2020 |
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