Essays: Biographical, Critical, and Historical; Illustrative of the Tatler, Spectator, and Guardian, Volume 1Suttaby, Evance, and Fox, 1814 - Authors, English |
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... honour . The TATLER presented to Europe in 1709 the first legitimate model . Some years previous indeed to the publication of this work there had appeared several political , controversial , and theological pe- riodical papers , the ...
... honour . The TATLER presented to Europe in 1709 the first legitimate model . Some years previous indeed to the publication of this work there had appeared several political , controversial , and theological pe- riodical papers , the ...
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... honour'd muse her rights , Who senseless live in wild impure delights ; I bid them once , I bid them twice begone , I bid them thrice , in still a louder tone : Far hence depart , whilst ye with dance and song Our solemn feast , our ...
... honour'd muse her rights , Who senseless live in wild impure delights ; I bid them once , I bid them twice begone , I bid them thrice , in still a louder tone : Far hence depart , whilst ye with dance and song Our solemn feast , our ...
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... honour on his country . " The Characters or Man- ners of this Age , " perhaps once the most popular work among the French , were printed in 1687 . They are confessedly an imitation of Theophrastus , whose sketches occupy the prior part ...
... honour on his country . " The Characters or Man- ners of this Age , " perhaps once the most popular work among the French , were printed in 1687 . They are confessedly an imitation of Theophrastus , whose sketches occupy the prior part ...
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... honour of the sex , however , that we can with truth call these draughts highly overcharged , and in a great mea- sure the caricatures of a licentious and debauch- ed imagination . At a period , indeed , when lite- rature was so little ...
... honour of the sex , however , that we can with truth call these draughts highly overcharged , and in a great mea- sure the caricatures of a licentious and debauch- ed imagination . At a period , indeed , when lite- rature was so little ...
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... all their influence , and the private speedily obtained the honours of an Ensign of the Guards . This elevation , by opening a road to the indul- gence of every sensual appetite , soon plunged our author BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF STEELE . 47.
... all their influence , and the private speedily obtained the honours of an Ensign of the Guards . This elevation , by opening a road to the indul- gence of every sensual appetite , soon plunged our author BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF STEELE . 47.
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