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Page 11
... lady if it is not so . Inquireth if you have had your arms done on vellum yet ; and did not know , till lately , that such - and - such had been the crest of the family . His memory is unseasonable ; his compliments perverse ; his talk ...
... lady if it is not so . Inquireth if you have had your arms done on vellum yet ; and did not know , till lately , that such - and - such had been the crest of the family . His memory is unseasonable ; his compliments perverse ; his talk ...
Page 12
... lady with a great estate . His stars are perpetually crossed by the malignant maternity of an old woman , who persists in calling him " her son Dick . " But she has wherewithal in the end to recompense his indignities , and float him ...
... lady with a great estate . His stars are perpetually crossed by the malignant maternity of an old woman , who persists in calling him " her son Dick . " But she has wherewithal in the end to recompense his indignities , and float him ...
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... delight be attained by a judicious understanding , not too openly announced , between the ladies and gentlemen - on both sides of the curtain . TO THE SHADE OF ELLISTON . JOYOUSEST of once embodied 24 STAGE ILLUSION .
... delight be attained by a judicious understanding , not too openly announced , between the ladies and gentlemen - on both sides of the curtain . TO THE SHADE OF ELLISTON . JOYOUSEST of once embodied 24 STAGE ILLUSION .
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... Lady G - ; " " The Melting Platonic and the Old Beau , ” — and such like antiquated scandal ? Would you ex- change it — at that time , and in that place - for a better book ? Poor Tobin , who latterly fell blind , did not regret it so ...
... Lady G - ; " " The Melting Platonic and the Old Beau , ” — and such like antiquated scandal ? Would you ex- change it — at that time , and in that place - for a better book ? Poor Tobin , who latterly fell blind , did not regret it so ...
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... ladies . There was some story of a Princess - Elizabeth , if I remember having intrusted to his care an extra- ordinary casket of jewels , upon some extraordinary occasion - but , as I am not certain of the name or circumstance at this ...
... ladies . There was some story of a Princess - Elizabeth , if I remember having intrusted to his care an extra- ordinary casket of jewels , upon some extraordinary occasion - but , as I am not certain of the name or circumstance at this ...
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