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... readers had much more regard to the advice I gave them , fince I have yet received very few accounts of any notorious trips made in the last month . But , though I hope for the best , I fhall not pro- nounce too pofitively on this point ...
... readers had much more regard to the advice I gave them , fince I have yet received very few accounts of any notorious trips made in the last month . But , though I hope for the best , I fhall not pro- nounce too pofitively on this point ...
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... love - labour'd feng , as Milton phrafes it ; the bloffoms are fallen , and the beds of flowers fwept away by the scythe of the mower . I fhall I fhall now allow my fair readers to return to 6 No. 395 . THE SPECTATOR .
... love - labour'd feng , as Milton phrafes it ; the bloffoms are fallen , and the beds of flowers fwept away by the scythe of the mower . I fhall I fhall now allow my fair readers to return to 6 No. 395 . THE SPECTATOR .
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I fhall now allow my fair readers to return to their romances and chocolate , provided they make ufe of them with moderation , till about the middle of the month , when the fun fhall have made fome progrefs in the Crab . Nothing is more ...
I fhall now allow my fair readers to return to their romances and chocolate , provided they make ufe of them with moderation , till about the middle of the month , when the fun fhall have made fome progrefs in the Crab . Nothing is more ...
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... reader's leave to pre- fent him with a letter that I received about half a year ago from a gentleman of Cambridge , who ftyles himself Peter de Quir . I have kept it by me fome months , and though I did not know at firft what to make of ...
... reader's leave to pre- fent him with a letter that I received about half a year ago from a gentleman of Cambridge , who ftyles himself Peter de Quir . I have kept it by me fome months , and though I did not know at firft what to make of ...
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... reader , than the most laboured ftrokes in a well - written tragedy . Truth and matter of fact fets the perfon actually be- fore us in the one , whom faction places at a greater distance from us in the other . I do not remember to have ...
... reader , than the most laboured ftrokes in a well - written tragedy . Truth and matter of fact fets the perfon actually be- fore us in the one , whom faction places at a greater distance from us in the other . I do not remember to have ...
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