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I must confefs it with a melancholy amazement , I see so wonderful a genius laid
aside , ' and the late llaves of the stage now become its maj . ters , dunces that
will be sure to suppress all thea• trical entertainments and activities that they are
...
I must confefs it with a melancholy amazement , I see so wonderful a genius laid
aside , ' and the late llaves of the stage now become its maj . ters , dunces that
will be sure to suppress all thea• trical entertainments and activities that they are
...
Page 41
... to all this , that if it were not for one pleasure , which I thought a very mean one
until 6 6 6 6 of very late years , I should have no No 26o THE SPECTATORI 4.1.
... to all this , that if it were not for one pleasure , which I thought a very mean one
until 6 6 6 6 of very late years , I should have no No 26o THE SPECTATORI 4.1.
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6 of very late years , I should have no one great satisfaç• tion left ; but if I live to
the 10th of March , 1714 ,• and all my securities are good , I shall be worth fifty
thousand pound , ( I am , Sir , • Your most humble servant ; Jack Afterday .
6 of very late years , I should have no one great satisfaç• tion left ; but if I live to
the 10th of March , 1714 ,• and all my securities are good , I shall be worth fifty
thousand pound , ( I am , Sir , • Your most humble servant ; Jack Afterday .
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I would not make myself merry even with a piece of pasteboard that is invested
with a public character ; for which reason I have never glanced upon the late
designed procession of his holineis and his attendants , notwithilanding it might
have ...
I would not make myself merry even with a piece of pasteboard that is invested
with a public character ; for which reason I have never glanced upon the late
designed procession of his holineis and his attendants , notwithilanding it might
have ...
Page 72
Creechi T is not that I think I have been more witty than I ought of late , that at
present I wholly forbear any attempt towards it : I am of , opinion that I ought
sometimes to lay before the world the plain letters of my correspondents in the
artless ...
Creechi T is not that I think I have been more witty than I ought of late , that at
present I wholly forbear any attempt towards it : I am of , opinion that I ought
sometimes to lay before the world the plain letters of my correspondents in the
artless ...
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| Title | The Spectator, Volume 4 The British essayists The Spectator, Joseph Addison |
| Publisher | J. and R. Tonson, 1767 |
| Original from | National Library of Israel |
| Digitized | 4 Sep 2019 |
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