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Page xiv
What the injury was he did not explain , nor did Gay ever know ; but fupposed that
some preferment designed for him , had by Addison's intervention been withheld
. Lord Warwick was a young man of very irregular life , and perhaps of loofe ...
What the injury was he did not explain , nor did Gay ever know ; but fupposed that
some preferment designed for him , had by Addison's intervention been withheld
. Lord Warwick was a young man of very irregular life , and perhaps of loofe ...
Page 6
His tenant's grow ' rich , his servants look satisfied , all the young women profess
love to him , and the young men are glad of his company ; when he comes into a
house , he calls the fervants by their names , and talks all the way upftairs to a ...
His tenant's grow ' rich , his servants look satisfied , all the young women profess
love to him , and the young men are glad of his company ; when he comes into a
house , he calls the fervants by their names , and talks all the way upftairs to a ...
Page 10
In all these important relations , he has ever about the same time received a kind
glance or a blow of a fan from some celebrated beauty , mother of the present
Lord such a If you speak of a young commoner that said a lively thing in the
house ...
In all these important relations , he has ever about the same time received a kind
glance or a blow of a fan from some celebrated beauty , mother of the present
Lord such a If you speak of a young commoner that said a lively thing in the
house ...
Page 77
The following letter is a complaint of a young lady , who fets forth a trespass of
this kind with that command of herself as befits beauty and innocence , and yet
wiih so much fpirit as susficiently expresses her indignation . The whole
transaction ...
The following letter is a complaint of a young lady , who fets forth a trespass of
this kind with that command of herself as befits beauty and innocence , and yet
wiih so much fpirit as susficiently expresses her indignation . The whole
transaction ...
Page 116
Instead of inuff - boxes and canes , which are usual helps to discourse with other
young fellows , there have each some piece of ribbon , a broken fan , or an old
girdle , which they play with while they talk of the fair perion remembered by each
...
Instead of inuff - boxes and canes , which are usual helps to discourse with other
young fellows , there have each some piece of ribbon , a broken fan , or an old
girdle , which they play with while they talk of the fair perion remembered by each
...
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