The Spectator, Volume 1George Atherton Aitken Routledge, 1975 |
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Page vii
... Isaac Bickerstaff , Esq . ' ; but having by long experience found that reform- ation is a work of time , he proposed ... Bickerstaff , aforesaid , has effectu- ally suppressed them ' 1 . 1 The name of Isaac Bickerstaff , it may at once ...
... Isaac Bickerstaff , Esq . ' ; but having by long experience found that reform- ation is a work of time , he proposed ... Bickerstaff , aforesaid , has effectu- ally suppressed them ' 1 . 1 The name of Isaac Bickerstaff , it may at once ...
Page viii
... Isaac Bickerstaff , Esq . ' replied that he could prove Partridge was not alive ; for no one living could write such rubbish as the new almanac . In The Tatler , Steele afterwards wrote that Swift had made Mr Bickerstaff's name famous ...
... Isaac Bickerstaff , Esq . ' replied that he could prove Partridge was not alive ; for no one living could write such rubbish as the new almanac . In The Tatler , Steele afterwards wrote that Swift had made Mr Bickerstaff's name famous ...
Page ix
... Bickerstaff's chief scenes action , as Addison said , were the coffee - houses and theatres , rather than camps and ... Isaac Bickerstaff we meet with other members of his family , especially his half - sister , Jenny Distaff , and her ...
... Bickerstaff's chief scenes action , as Addison said , were the coffee - houses and theatres , rather than camps and ... Isaac Bickerstaff we meet with other members of his family , especially his half - sister , Jenny Distaff , and her ...
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