Essays: Biographical, Critical, and Historical; Illustrative of the Tatler, Spectator, and Guardian, Volume 1Suttaby, Evance, and Fox, 1814 - Authors, English |
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Page 42
... hand , and fell a beating the coffin , and calling ' Papa ; ' for , I know not how , I had some slight idea that he was locked up there . My mother catched me in her arms , and , transported beyond all patience of the silent grief she ...
... hand , and fell a beating the coffin , and calling ' Papa ; ' for , I know not how , I had some slight idea that he was locked up there . My mother catched me in her arms , and , transported beyond all patience of the silent grief she ...
Page 43
... hands . The judgment of this gentleman immediately discovered its defects ; his sentence condemned it to oblivion ; and it tells highly to the credit of Steele that he submitted to the mortifying decision of his friend without a murmur ...
... hands . The judgment of this gentleman immediately discovered its defects ; his sentence condemned it to oblivion ; and it tells highly to the credit of Steele that he submitted to the mortifying decision of his friend without a murmur ...
Page 44
... hand in hand , with common friendly woe , In poverty , our native state , they go , Some , whom unstable errors did engage , By luxury in youth , to need in age ; Some , who had virgin vows to wedlock broke , And where they help ...
... hand in hand , with common friendly woe , In poverty , our native state , they go , Some , whom unstable errors did engage , By luxury in youth , to need in age ; Some , who had virgin vows to wedlock broke , And where they help ...
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... hand , and planted himself behind King William the Third , against Lewis XIV . he lost the succession to a very good estate in the county of Wexford , in Ireland , from the same humour which he has preserved ever since , of preferring ...
... hand , and planted himself behind King William the Third , against Lewis XIV . he lost the succession to a very good estate in the county of Wexford , in Ireland , from the same humour which he has preserved ever since , of preferring ...
Page 54
... hand , that I thought very meanly of myself that I had never publickly acknowledged them . " * It is not possible in this place to resist the con- solatory pleasure of dwelling for a few moments on the friendship which subsisted between ...
... hand , that I thought very meanly of myself that I had never publickly acknowledged them . " * It is not possible in this place to resist the con- solatory pleasure of dwelling for a few moments on the friendship which subsisted between ...
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