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Page 16
... figure as she now does in the circle of charming women , Cynthio has been fecretly one of her adorers . Lætitia has been the finest woman in town these three months , and fo long Cynthio has acted the part of a lover very awkwardly in ...
... figure as she now does in the circle of charming women , Cynthio has been fecretly one of her adorers . Lætitia has been the finest woman in town these three months , and fo long Cynthio has acted the part of a lover very awkwardly in ...
Page 41
... figure : but this will not fatisfy him , he takes up an unaccountable fondness for the character of a fine gentleman ; all his thoughts are bent upon this : inftead of at- tending a diffection , frequenting the courts of ju- ftice , or ...
... figure : but this will not fatisfy him , he takes up an unaccountable fondness for the character of a fine gentleman ; all his thoughts are bent upon this : inftead of at- tending a diffection , frequenting the courts of ju- ftice , or ...
Page 42
... figure ; and Tully's declamatory inclination would have been as useless in poetry . Nature , if left to herfelf , leads us on in the beft courfe , but will do nothing nothing by compulsion and constraint ; and if we are 42. THE ...
... figure ; and Tully's declamatory inclination would have been as useless in poetry . Nature , if left to herfelf , leads us on in the beft courfe , but will do nothing nothing by compulsion and constraint ; and if we are 42. THE ...
Page 43
... figure one way , make a very ridiculous one another . If Semanthe would have been fatisfied with her natural complexion , fhe might still have been with No. 404. THE SPECTATOR .. 43 nothing by compulsion and constraint; and if we are ...
... figure one way , make a very ridiculous one another . If Semanthe would have been fatisfied with her natural complexion , fhe might still have been with No. 404. THE SPECTATOR .. 43 nothing by compulsion and constraint; and if we are ...
Page 49
... figure and a much louder noise , but after all run more fmoothly , equally , and plentifully , in their own natural courfe upon the ground . The ⚫ confideration of this would make me very well con- ⚫tented with the poffeffion only of ...
... figure and a much louder noise , but after all run more fmoothly , equally , and plentifully , in their own natural courfe upon the ground . The ⚫ confideration of this would make me very well con- ⚫tented with the poffeffion only of ...
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