The Spectator, Volume 4J.M. Dent & Company, 1913 |
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... Things of You , and You cannot hide from us , ( by the most discreet Silence in any Thing which regards your self ) that the frank Enter tainment we have at your Table , your easie Condescen sion in little Incidents of Mirth and ...
... Things of You , and You cannot hide from us , ( by the most discreet Silence in any Thing which regards your self ) that the frank Enter tainment we have at your Table , your easie Condescen sion in little Incidents of Mirth and ...
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... Thing easily , takes it in with Pleasure , and retains it long . Method is not less requisite in ordinary Conversation than in Writing , provided a Man would talk to make himself understood . I , who hear a thousand Coffee - house ...
... Thing easily , takes it in with Pleasure , and retains it long . Method is not less requisite in ordinary Conversation than in Writing , provided a Man would talk to make himself understood . I , who hear a thousand Coffee - house ...
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... Thing in its Perfection , and am more pleased to survey my Rows of Colworts and Cabbages , with a thousand nameless Pot - herbs , springing up in their full Fragrancy and Verdure , than to see the tender Plants of Foreign Countries kept ...
... Thing in its Perfection , and am more pleased to survey my Rows of Colworts and Cabbages , with a thousand nameless Pot - herbs , springing up in their full Fragrancy and Verdure , than to see the tender Plants of Foreign Countries kept ...
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... Thing I have yet said . I find that in the Dis course which I spoke . of at the Beginning of my Letter , you are against filling an English Garden with Ever Greens ; and indeed I am so far of your Opinion , that I can by no Means think ...
... Thing I have yet said . I find that in the Dis course which I spoke . of at the Beginning of my Letter , you are against filling an English Garden with Ever Greens ; and indeed I am so far of your Opinion , that I can by no Means think ...
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... things to buy for his Family , wou'd oblige me to walk with him to the Shops , He was very nice in his Way , and fond of having every thing shewn , which at first made me very uneasy ; but as his Humour still con- tinu'd , the things ...
... things to buy for his Family , wou'd oblige me to walk with him to the Shops , He was very nice in his Way , and fond of having every thing shewn , which at first made me very uneasy ; but as his Humour still con- tinu'd , the things ...
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