The Spectator, Volume 2J. Duncan, 1791 |
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Page 22
... pleasure . My reader will think I am not serious , when I acquaint him that the piece I am going to speak of was the old ballad of the Two Children in the Wood , which is one of the darling songs of the cominon people , and has been the ...
... pleasure . My reader will think I am not serious , when I acquaint him that the piece I am going to speak of was the old ballad of the Two Children in the Wood , which is one of the darling songs of the cominon people , and has been the ...
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... pleasure in the reading of them . I can affirm the same of Mr. Dryden , and know several of the most refined writers of our present age who are of the same humour . I might likewise refer my reader to Moliere's thoughts on this subject ...
... pleasure in the reading of them . I can affirm the same of Mr. Dryden , and know several of the most refined writers of our present age who are of the same humour . I might likewise refer my reader to Moliere's thoughts on this subject ...
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... pleasures all abjure . When out of hope , behold her ! not far off , Such as I saw her in my dream , adorn'd With what all earth or heav'n could bestow To make her amiable . On she came , Led by her heav'nly Maker , though unseen , And ...
... pleasures all abjure . When out of hope , behold her ! not far off , Such as I saw her in my dream , adorn'd With what all earth or heav'n could bestow To make her amiable . On she came , Led by her heav'nly Maker , though unseen , And ...
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... pleasures , and deing again to enter the body that gave them an opportu . ty of fulfilling them . Soine of our most eminent divines have made use of is Platonic notion , so far as it regards the subsistence of r paffions after death ...
... pleasures , and deing again to enter the body that gave them an opportu . ty of fulfilling them . Soine of our most eminent divines have made use of is Platonic notion , so far as it regards the subsistence of r paffions after death ...
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... Pleasures of a ountry Life . The Government of the Tongue . A letter ted from Cheaplide defires me that I would advise all ung wives to make themselves mistresses of Wingate's Arithmetic , and concludes with a poftfcript , that he TO 92 ...
... Pleasures of a ountry Life . The Government of the Tongue . A letter ted from Cheaplide defires me that I would advise all ung wives to make themselves mistresses of Wingate's Arithmetic , and concludes with a poftfcript , that he TO 92 ...
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