“The” Spectator ...J. Wood, 1761 |
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Page 9
... live at a distance from the fashionable world ; but as it is a diftinction of a very fingu- lar nature , and what perhaps may never meet with a pa- · rallel , I think I should not have difcharged the office of a faithful SPECTATOR , had ...
... live at a distance from the fashionable world ; but as it is a diftinction of a very fingu- lar nature , and what perhaps may never meet with a pa- · rallel , I think I should not have difcharged the office of a faithful SPECTATOR , had ...
Page 12
... live under thefe con- ftant apprehenfions , and ftill go on to increase the cause of them . Can there be a more low and fervile condition , than to be ashamed or afraid , to fee any one man breath- ing yet he that is much in debt , is ...
... live under thefe con- ftant apprehenfions , and ftill go on to increase the cause of them . Can there be a more low and fervile condition , than to be ashamed or afraid , to fee any one man breath- ing yet he that is much in debt , is ...
Page 39
... lives in a state of invincible defire and impotence , and always burns in the pursuit of what he al- ways defpairs to poffefs It is for this reafon ( fays Plato ) that the fouls of the dead appear frequently in cemiteries , and hover ...
... lives in a state of invincible defire and impotence , and always burns in the pursuit of what he al- ways defpairs to poffefs It is for this reafon ( fays Plato ) that the fouls of the dead appear frequently in cemiteries , and hover ...
Page 42
... lives the lady Honoria , a widow about the age of forty , of a healthy conftitution , gay temper , and elegant perfon . She dreffes a little too much like a girl , affects a childish fond- nefs in the tone of her voice , fometimes a ...
... lives the lady Honoria , a widow about the age of forty , of a healthy conftitution , gay temper , and elegant perfon . She dreffes a little too much like a girl , affects a childish fond- nefs in the tone of her voice , fometimes a ...
Page 43
... live almost upon an equality in converfation : and as Ho- noria has given Flavia to understand , that it is ill - bred to be always calling mother , Flavia is as well pleafed ne- ver to be called child . It happens by this means , that ...
... live almost upon an equality in converfation : and as Ho- noria has given Flavia to understand , that it is ill - bred to be always calling mother , Flavia is as well pleafed ne- ver to be called child . It happens by this means , that ...
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