The Spectator, Volume 4J. and R. Tonson, 1767 |
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... woman turned of thirty , and am on the • observation a little ; therefore if you or your correfpon- * dent had confulted me in your difcourfe on the eye , I < could have told you that the eye of Leonora is flily watch- * ful while it ...
... woman turned of thirty , and am on the • observation a little ; therefore if you or your correfpon- * dent had confulted me in your difcourfe on the eye , I < could have told you that the eye of Leonora is flily watch- * ful while it ...
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... woman there in finer clothes than her- felf : these are arts of perfuafion purely feminine , and which a tender heart cannot refift . What I would there- ⚫fore defire of you , is , to prevail with your friend who has promised to ...
... woman there in finer clothes than her- felf : these are arts of perfuafion purely feminine , and which a tender heart cannot refift . What I would there- ⚫fore defire of you , is , to prevail with your friend who has promised to ...
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... woman : it is a ⚫ little infolent in me perhaps , to advise a matron ; but I am fo afraid you will make fo filly a figure as a fond wife , that I cannot help warning you not to appear in any public places with your husband , and never ...
... woman : it is a ⚫ little infolent in me perhaps , to advise a matron ; but I am fo afraid you will make fo filly a figure as a fond wife , that I cannot help warning you not to appear in any public places with your husband , and never ...
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... woman ; I wish fhe had the handling of you and Mrs. Modifh ; you ' would find , if you were too free with her , she would ⚫ foon make you as charming as ever you were , fhe would make you blush as much as if you never had been fine ...
... woman ; I wish fhe had the handling of you and Mrs. Modifh ; you ' would find , if you were too free with her , she would ⚫ foon make you as charming as ever you were , fhe would make you blush as much as if you never had been fine ...
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... woman for no other reafon but to appear a woman of the beft quality in the church . This abfurd custom had better be abolished than retained , if it were but to prevent evils of no higher a nature than this is ; but I am informed of ...
... woman for no other reafon but to appear a woman of the beft quality in the church . This abfurd custom had better be abolished than retained , if it were but to prevent evils of no higher a nature than this is ; but I am informed of ...
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