The Spectator ..Peter Wilson, 1755 |
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Page 13
... fomething to tell me about Mr. Froth , I am fure it is not true . Between twelve and one . Dreamed that Mr. Froth lay at my feet , and called me Indamora . SATURDAY . Rofe at eight o'clock in the morning . Sat down to my toilette . From ...
... fomething to tell me about Mr. Froth , I am fure it is not true . Between twelve and one . Dreamed that Mr. Froth lay at my feet , and called me Indamora . SATURDAY . Rofe at eight o'clock in the morning . Sat down to my toilette . From ...
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... fomething as monftrous as any thing that has yet appeared to the world ; for they fay the child is to bear a refem- blance of what was defir'd by the mother . I have ⚫ been married upwards of fix years , have had four children , and my ...
... fomething as monftrous as any thing that has yet appeared to the world ; for they fay the child is to bear a refem- blance of what was defir'd by the mother . I have ⚫ been married upwards of fix years , have had four children , and my ...
Page 29
... fomething parallel in Holy Writ , would have been very well pleafed had they thought of confronting Vulcan's Tripodes with Ezekiel's wheels . " Raphael's defcent to the earth , with the figure of his perfon , is reprefented in very ...
... fomething parallel in Holy Writ , would have been very well pleafed had they thought of confronting Vulcan's Tripodes with Ezekiel's wheels . " Raphael's defcent to the earth , with the figure of his perfon , is reprefented in very ...
Page 63
... fomething elfe , he whif- pered me in my ear , Thefe widows , Sir , are the most perverfe creatures in the world . But pray , fays he , you ' that are a critic , is the play according to your drama- tick rules , as you call them ...
... fomething elfe , he whif- pered me in my ear , Thefe widows , Sir , are the most perverfe creatures in the world . But pray , fays he , you ' that are a critic , is the play according to your drama- tick rules , as you call them ...
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... fomething in his ear , that lafted till the opening of the fifth act . The Knight was wonderfully attentive to the account which Oreftes gives of Pyrrhus his death , and at the conclufion of it , told me it was fuch a bloody piece of ...
... fomething in his ear , that lafted till the opening of the fifth act . The Knight was wonderfully attentive to the account which Oreftes gives of Pyrrhus his death , and at the conclufion of it , told me it was fuch a bloody piece of ...
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