The Spectator, Volume 5J. Tonson, 1729 - English essays |
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Page 10
... Reader on Tuesday laft , has brought me in feveral Letters , with Accounts of many private Lives caft into that Form . I have the Rake's Journal , the Sot's Journal , the Whoremafter's Journal , and among feveral others a very curious ...
... Reader on Tuesday laft , has brought me in feveral Letters , with Accounts of many private Lives caft into that Form . I have the Rake's Journal , the Sot's Journal , the Whoremafter's Journal , and among feveral others a very curious ...
Page 11
... Readers , I fhould not have published it ; but as it is only the Picture of a Life filled with a fashionable kind of Gaiety and Laziness , I fhall fet down five Days of it , as I have received it from the Hand of my fair Cor- refpondent ...
... Readers , I fhould not have published it ; but as it is only the Picture of a Life filled with a fashionable kind of Gaiety and Laziness , I fhall fet down five Days of it , as I have received it from the Hand of my fair Cor- refpondent ...
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... Reader will pardon me the Quotation . On the Countess Dowager of Pembroke . Underneath this Marble Hearfe Lies the Subject of all Verfe , Sidney's Sifter , Pembroke's Mother : Death , ere thou hast kill'd another , Fair , and learn'd ...
... Reader will pardon me the Quotation . On the Countess Dowager of Pembroke . Underneath this Marble Hearfe Lies the Subject of all Verfe , Sidney's Sifter , Pembroke's Mother : Death , ere thou hast kill'd another , Fair , and learn'd ...
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... Reader as well as the SPECTATOR . 6 . In this manner they carry on a War against Mankind ; and by the standing Maxims of their Policy , are to enter into no Alliances but one , and that is Offenfive and Defensive ⚫ with all Bawdy ...
... Reader as well as the SPECTATOR . 6 . In this manner they carry on a War against Mankind ; and by the standing Maxims of their Policy , are to enter into no Alliances but one , and that is Offenfive and Defensive ⚫ with all Bawdy ...
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... Reader may obferve at the fame View , how amiable Ignorance may be when it is fhewn in its Simplicities , and how deteftable in Barbarities . It is written by an honeft Countryman to his Miftrefs , and came to the Hands of a Lady of ...
... Reader may obferve at the fame View , how amiable Ignorance may be when it is fhewn in its Simplicities , and how deteftable in Barbarities . It is written by an honeft Countryman to his Miftrefs , and came to the Hands of a Lady of ...
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