The Spectator. ...John Bell, 1776 - 361 pages |
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... keep to myself , at least for fome time : I mean , an account of my name , my age , and my lodgings . I muft confefs , I would gratify my reader in any thing that is reasonable ; but as for thefe three particulars , though I am fen ...
... keep to myself , at least for fome time : I mean , an account of my name , my age , and my lodgings . I muft confefs , I would gratify my reader in any thing that is reasonable ; but as for thefe three particulars , though I am fen ...
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... keeps himself a bachelor by reafon he was croffed in love by a perverse beautiful widow of the next county to him . Before this disappoint- ment , Sir ROGER was what you call a Fine Gentle- man , had often fupped with my Lord Rochefter ...
... keeps himself a bachelor by reafon he was croffed in love by a perverse beautiful widow of the next county to him . Before this disappoint- ment , Sir ROGER was what you call a Fine Gentle- man , had often fupped with my Lord Rochefter ...
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... keeps a good house both in town and country ; a great lover of mankind ; but there is fuch a mirthful caft in his behaviour , that he is rather beloved than esteem- ed . His tenants grow rich , his fervants look fatis- fied , all the ...
... keeps a good house both in town and country ; a great lover of mankind ; but there is fuch a mirthful caft in his behaviour , that he is rather beloved than esteem- ed . His tenants grow rich , his fervants look fatis- fied , all the ...
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... keep up an indolent at- tention in the audience . Common fenfe however requires , that there should be nothing in the scenes and machines which may appear , childish and ab- furd . How would the wits of King Charles's time have laughed ...
... keep up an indolent at- tention in the audience . Common fenfe however requires , that there should be nothing in the scenes and machines which may appear , childish and ab- furd . How would the wits of King Charles's time have laughed ...
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... keep their feat , when an old man ap- pear'd . I Know no evil under the fun fo great as the a- buse of the understanding , and yet there is no one vice more common . It has diffused itself thro ' · both fexes and all qualities of ...
... keep their feat , when an old man ap- pear'd . I Know no evil under the fun fo great as the a- buse of the understanding , and yet there is no one vice more common . It has diffused itself thro ' · both fexes and all qualities of ...
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