The Tatler; Or, Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq; ...C. Bathurst, J. Buckland, W. Strahan, J. and F. Rivington, C. Say [and 25 others in London], 1774 - England - 8 pages |
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... that it gives me the moft confpicuous occafion I can ever have , of fubfcribing myself , SIR , Your most obliged , moft obedient , and moft humble fervant , FSAAC BICKERSTAFF . THE TATLE R. N ° 1 . 06 t Tuesday DEDICATION .
... that it gives me the moft confpicuous occafion I can ever have , of fubfcribing myself , SIR , Your most obliged , moft obedient , and moft humble fervant , FSAAC BICKERSTAFF . THE TATLE R. N ° 1 . 06 t Tuesday DEDICATION .
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... kind . As I juft now hinted , I own myself of the fociety for Reformation of Man , We have lower inftruments than those of the ners . 3 family family of Bickerstaff , for punishing great crimes , and N ° 3 . THE TATLER . 13.
... kind . As I juft now hinted , I own myself of the fociety for Reformation of Man , We have lower inftruments than those of the ners . 3 family family of Bickerstaff , for punishing great crimes , and N ° 3 . THE TATLER . 13.
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... myself a dying man , in comparison of " the vigour with which I first fet out in the world . " Had it been otherwise , you may be fure I would not " have pretended to have given for News , as I did laft " Saturday , a diary of the fiege ...
... myself a dying man , in comparison of " the vigour with which I first fet out in the world . " Had it been otherwise , you may be fure I would not " have pretended to have given for News , as I did laft " Saturday , a diary of the fiege ...
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... myself went early this morn- into into the fields , which were firewed with shepherds and fhepherdeffes , but indeed of a different turn from the fimplicity of those of Arcadia . Every hedge was confcious of more than what the ...
... myself went early this morn- into into the fields , which were firewed with shepherds and fhepherdeffes , but indeed of a different turn from the fimplicity of those of Arcadia . Every hedge was confcious of more than what the ...
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... myself that the better part of me is to survive it ? Oh ! may that be in happiness . A fudden fhriek , in which the whole people on their faces joined , interrupted my foliloquy , and turned my eyes and attention to the object which had ...
... myself that the better part of me is to survive it ? Oh ! may that be in happiness . A fudden fhriek , in which the whole people on their faces joined , interrupted my foliloquy , and turned my eyes and attention to the object which had ...
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