“The” Spectator ...J. Wood, 1761 |
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... look upon you as a perfon very well qualified for a Dedication . I MAY poffibly difappoint my readers , and yourfelf too , if I do not endeavour on this . occafion to make the world acquainted with your virtues . And here , Sir , I ...
... look upon you as a perfon very well qualified for a Dedication . I MAY poffibly difappoint my readers , and yourfelf too , if I do not endeavour on this . occafion to make the world acquainted with your virtues . And here , Sir , I ...
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... your old ones . In short , we hear from all hands that you are tho roughly reconciled to your dirty acres , and have not too much wit to look into your own eftate . AFTER AFTER having fpoken thus much of my patron , I DEDICATION .
... your old ones . In short , we hear from all hands that you are tho roughly reconciled to your dirty acres , and have not too much wit to look into your own eftate . AFTER AFTER having fpoken thus much of my patron , I DEDICATION .
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... looks aloft , and with new glory burns ; Reftor'd with pois'nous herbs , his ardent fides . Reflect the fun , and rais'd on fpires he rides ; High o'er the grafs biffing he ... look I look upon to be as remarkable an accident as THE ...
... looks aloft , and with new glory burns ; Reftor'd with pois'nous herbs , his ardent fides . Reflect the fun , and rais'd on fpires he rides ; High o'er the grafs biffing he ... look I look upon to be as remarkable an accident as THE ...
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I look upon to be as remarkable an accident as any recor- ded in history , fince that which happened to the son of Grosfus , after having been many years as much tongue- tyed as myself . UPON the firft opening of my mouth , I made a ...
I look upon to be as remarkable an accident as any recor- ded in history , fince that which happened to the son of Grosfus , after having been many years as much tongue- tyed as myself . UPON the firft opening of my mouth , I made a ...
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... look upon as a great curiofity , and which may serve as an exemplification to the foregoing paffage , cited out of this moft excellent pre- late . It is faid to have been written in King Charles II's reign by the ambaffador of Bantam ...
... look upon as a great curiofity , and which may serve as an exemplification to the foregoing paffage , cited out of this moft excellent pre- late . It is faid to have been written in King Charles II's reign by the ambaffador of Bantam ...
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