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Page 49
The • first was a ploughman of a very promising aspect ; • his features were
steady , and his muscles compossed in so inflexible a stupidity , that upon his first
appearance every one gave the guinea for loft . • The Pickled Herring however
found ...
The • first was a ploughman of a very promising aspect ; • his features were
steady , and his muscles compossed in so inflexible a stupidity , that upon his first
appearance every one gave the guinea for loft . • The Pickled Herring however
found ...
Page 116
In the first cafe there would be no variety of tastes to folicit his palate , and
occasion excess ; nor in the second any artificial provocatives to relieve satiety ,
and create a false : appetite . Were I to prescribe a rule for drinking , it thould be
formed ...
In the first cafe there would be no variety of tastes to folicit his palate , and
occasion excess ; nor in the second any artificial provocatives to relieve satiety ,
and create a false : appetite . Were I to prescribe a rule for drinking , it thould be
formed ...
Page 160
You have described the Piat in your forty - first ; • the idol , in your seventy - third ;
the demurer , in your eighty.nintlı ; the falamander , in your hun . ( tred and ninety
- eighth . You have likewise taken to pieces our dress , and represented to us ...
You have described the Piat in your forty - first ; • the idol , in your seventy - third ;
the demurer , in your eighty.nintlı ; the falamander , in your hun . ( tred and ninety
- eighth . You have likewise taken to pieces our dress , and represented to us ...
Page 230
Upon his taking the doctor of divinity's degree , he preached before the university
of Cambridge , upon the first verse of the first chapter of the first book of
Chronicles , in which , fays he , you have the three following words , Adam ,
Sheth , Engh ...
Upon his taking the doctor of divinity's degree , he preached before the university
of Cambridge , upon the first verse of the first chapter of the first book of
Chronicles , in which , fays he , you have the three following words , Adam ,
Sheth , Engh ...
Page 349
The first ridicules perfons by drawing them in their proper characters , the other
by drawing them quite unlike theinselves , Burlesque is therefore of two kinds ;
the first represents mean persons in the accoutrements of heroes , the other ...
The first ridicules perfons by drawing them in their proper characters , the other
by drawing them quite unlike theinselves , Burlesque is therefore of two kinds ;
the first represents mean persons in the accoutrements of heroes , the other ...
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| Title | The Spectator, Volume 3 The Spectator, Sir Richard Steele |
| Contributors | Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele |
| Publisher | John Bell, 1776 |
| Original from | Lyon Public Library |
| Digitized | 20 Oct 2011 |
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