The Spectator, Volume 4J. and R. Tonson, 1767 |
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Page 41
... circumstances which are heaped up in my memory ; fine gowns , country dances , ends of tunes , interrupted ' converfations , and midnight quarrels , are what muft neceffarily compofe my foliloquy . I beg of you to print this , that fome ...
... circumstances which are heaped up in my memory ; fine gowns , country dances , ends of tunes , interrupted ' converfations , and midnight quarrels , are what muft neceffarily compofe my foliloquy . I beg of you to print this , that fome ...
Page 47
... circumstances as may prevent all fuch ill - na- tured applications . If I write any thing on a black man , I run over in my mind all the eminent perfons in the nation who are of that complexion : when I place an imaginary name at the ...
... circumstances as may prevent all fuch ill - na- tured applications . If I write any thing on a black man , I run over in my mind all the eminent perfons in the nation who are of that complexion : when I place an imaginary name at the ...
Page 65
... for being a flight thing , together with every other circumstance in the fcene , are inimi tably excellent , and have the true fpirit of comedy i though though it were to be wifhed the author had added N ° 266 THE SPECTATOR . 65.
... for being a flight thing , together with every other circumstance in the fcene , are inimi tably excellent , and have the true fpirit of comedy i though though it were to be wifhed the author had added N ° 266 THE SPECTATOR . 65.
Page 71
... circumstances in them , than the hiftory of the Fall of Man , as it is related in fcripture . Befides , it was easier for Homer and Virgil to dash the truth with fiction , as they were in no danger of offending the religion of their ...
... circumstances in them , than the hiftory of the Fall of Man , as it is related in fcripture . Befides , it was easier for Homer and Virgil to dash the truth with fiction , as they were in no danger of offending the religion of their ...
Page 86
... circumstances of it fuch , that I know you will but think it just to in- fert it , in preference of all other matters that can pre- fent themfelves to your confideration . I need not , after I have faid this , tell you that I am in love ...
... circumstances of it fuch , that I know you will but think it just to in- fert it , in preference of all other matters that can pre- fent themfelves to your confideration . I need not , after I have faid this , tell you that I am in love ...
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