The SpectatorRichard Eyres, 1778 - Great Britain |
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Page 18
... kind of pageantry to cover diftrefs ; for in two months after he was carried to her grave with the fame pomp and magnificence ! being fent thither partly by the lofs of one lover , and partly by the poffeffion of another . I have often ...
... kind of pageantry to cover diftrefs ; for in two months after he was carried to her grave with the fame pomp and magnificence ! being fent thither partly by the lofs of one lover , and partly by the poffeffion of another . I have often ...
Page 23
... kind to torture this fort of temper , and delights in it . When he finds them change colour , and say faintly they wish such a piece of news is true , he has the malice to speak fome good or other of every man of their acquain- tance ...
... kind to torture this fort of temper , and delights in it . When he finds them change colour , and say faintly they wish such a piece of news is true , he has the malice to speak fome good or other of every man of their acquain- tance ...
Page 24
... kind . Perhaps it is that an English coxcomb is feldom fo obfequious as an Irish one ; and when the defign of pleafing is visible , an abfurdity in the way toward it is eafily forgiven . S. C. I have frequently feen of this fort of ...
... kind . Perhaps it is that an English coxcomb is feldom fo obfequious as an Irish one ; and when the defign of pleafing is visible , an abfurdity in the way toward it is eafily forgiven . S. C. I have frequently feen of this fort of ...
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... kind disappears by the comparison of her innocence in another . Will you , virtuous men , allow no alteration of of- fences ? Muft dear Chloe be called by the hard 6 name you pious people give to common women ? I keep the folemn promise ...
... kind disappears by the comparison of her innocence in another . Will you , virtuous men , allow no alteration of of- fences ? Muft dear Chloe be called by the hard 6 name you pious people give to common women ? I keep the folemn promise ...
Page 41
... kind of allegory , and by fuppofing humour to be a perfon , deduce to him all his qualifications , ac- cording to the following genealogy . Truth was the founder of the family , and the father of Good Senfe . Good Senfe was the father ...
... kind of allegory , and by fuppofing humour to be a perfon , deduce to him all his qualifications , ac- cording to the following genealogy . Truth was the founder of the family , and the father of Good Senfe . Good Senfe was the father ...
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