The Spectator, Volume 3J. Sharpe, 1808 |
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Page 33
... but my wife secs me writing , and will , according to custom , be con- sulted , if I do not seal this immediately . STEELE . 6 Yours , < NATHANIEL HENROOST . ' T. IN N ° 177. SATURDAY , SEPTEMBER , 22 , 176 . 33 SPECTATOR .
... but my wife secs me writing , and will , according to custom , be con- sulted , if I do not seal this immediately . STEELE . 6 Yours , < NATHANIEL HENROOST . ' T. IN N ° 177. SATURDAY , SEPTEMBER , 22 , 176 . 33 SPECTATOR .
Page 43
... write to the particu- lar taste of either . As they neither of them know what I proceed upon , the sprightly reader , who takes up my paper in order to be diverted , very of- ten finds himself engaged unawares in a serious and ...
... write to the particu- lar taste of either . As they neither of them know what I proceed upon , the sprightly reader , who takes up my paper in order to be diverted , very of- ten finds himself engaged unawares in a serious and ...
Page 56
... write letters , send messages , and form appointments with little raw unthinking girls , and leave them after pos- session of them , without any mercy , to shame , in- famy , poverty , and disease . Were you to read the nauseous ...
... write letters , send messages , and form appointments with little raw unthinking girls , and leave them after pos- session of them , without any mercy , to shame , in- famy , poverty , and disease . Were you to read the nauseous ...
Page 59
... write at that rate that no gentleman can read thee . Be true to love , and burn your Seneca . You do not expect me to write my name from hence , but I am STEELE . Your unknown humble , & c . ' T. No 183. SATURDAY , SEPTEMBER 29 , 1711 ...
... write at that rate that no gentleman can read thee . Be true to love , and burn your Seneca . You do not expect me to write my name from hence , but I am STEELE . Your unknown humble , & c . ' T. No 183. SATURDAY , SEPTEMBER 29 , 1711 ...
Page 60
... writing is come more in- to vogue than any other author of our times . The fables I have here mentioned are raised alto- gether upon brutes and vegetables , with some of our own species mixt among them , when the moral hath so required ...
... writing is come more in- to vogue than any other author of our times . The fables I have here mentioned are raised alto- gether upon brutes and vegetables , with some of our own species mixt among them , when the moral hath so required ...
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