The Spectator, Volume 1J.M. Dent & Company, 1926 |
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Page 152
... Picts behold all things with the same Air , whether they are Joyful or Sad ; the same fixed Insensibility appears upon all Occasions . A Pict , though she takes all that Pains to invite the Approach of Lovers , is obliged to keep them ...
... Picts behold all things with the same Air , whether they are Joyful or Sad ; the same fixed Insensibility appears upon all Occasions . A Pict , though she takes all that Pains to invite the Approach of Lovers , is obliged to keep them ...
Page 153
... Pict begins the Face she designed to wear that Day , and I have heard him protest she had worked a full half Hour before he knew her to be the same Woman . As soon as he saw the Dawn of that Complexion , for which he had so long ...
... Pict begins the Face she designed to wear that Day , and I have heard him protest she had worked a full half Hour before he knew her to be the same Woman . As soon as he saw the Dawn of that Complexion , for which he had so long ...
Page 160
... Pict his Grandsire won . Here if the Poet had not been Vivacious , as well as Stupid , he could not , in the Warmth and Hurry of Nonsense , have been capable of forgetting that neither Prince Voltager , nor his Grandfather , could strip ...
... Pict his Grandsire won . Here if the Poet had not been Vivacious , as well as Stupid , he could not , in the Warmth and Hurry of Nonsense , have been capable of forgetting that neither Prince Voltager , nor his Grandfather , could strip ...
Page 161
... Pict , and made Thursday , Buff of his Skin , for the Wearing of the Conqueror . April 19 , To bring these Observations to some useful Purpose of Life , what I would propose should be , that we imi tated those wise Nations , wherein ...
... Pict , and made Thursday , Buff of his Skin , for the Wearing of the Conqueror . April 19 , To bring these Observations to some useful Purpose of Life , what I would propose should be , that we imi tated those wise Nations , wherein ...
Page 178
... Pict . If they are not so eminently gifted by Nature as our Assembly expects , give me Leave to say , their acquired Ugliness is greater than any that has ever appeared before you The Beau has varied his Dress every Day of his Life for ...
... Pict . If they are not so eminently gifted by Nature as our Assembly expects , give me Leave to say , their acquired Ugliness is greater than any that has ever appeared before you The Beau has varied his Dress every Day of his Life for ...
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