The Spectator, Volume 2J. and R. Tonson, 1767 - English essays |
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Page 15
... imagination , that they formed in it a fhort morning's dream , which I fhall communicate to my reader , rather as the first sketch and outlines of a vifion , than as a finished piece . I dreamed that I was admitted into a long fpacious ...
... imagination , that they formed in it a fhort morning's dream , which I fhall communicate to my reader , rather as the first sketch and outlines of a vifion , than as a finished piece . I dreamed that I was admitted into a long fpacious ...
Page 45
... imagination nor her health would ever give her to know , that he is turned of twenty ; but that in the midst of these pretty softnesses , and airs of delicacy and attraction , she has a tall daughter within a fortnight of fifteen , who ...
... imagination nor her health would ever give her to know , that he is turned of twenty ; but that in the midst of these pretty softnesses , and airs of delicacy and attraction , she has a tall daughter within a fortnight of fifteen , who ...
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... imagination as far as poffible from what they had long themselves forgot , and ended his difcourfe with a fly commendation of the doctrine of Platonic Love ; at the fame time he ran over , with a laughing eye , Cra- ftin's thin legs ...
... imagination as far as poffible from what they had long themselves forgot , and ended his difcourfe with a fly commendation of the doctrine of Platonic Love ; at the fame time he ran over , with a laughing eye , Cra- ftin's thin legs ...
Page 80
... imagination and good - breeding are added to a fweet difpofition , they qualify it to be one of the greatest bleffings , as well as pleafures of life . Men would come into company with ten times the pleasure they do , if they were fure ...
... imagination and good - breeding are added to a fweet difpofition , they qualify it to be one of the greatest bleffings , as well as pleafures of life . Men would come into company with ten times the pleasure they do , if they were fure ...
Page 83
... imagination , that I fancy will not be altogether unlike what will be found in fome page or other of this imaginary hiftorian . It was under this reign , fays he , that the Spectator published thofe little diurnal effays which are ftill ...
... imagination , that I fancy will not be altogether unlike what will be found in fome page or other of this imaginary hiftorian . It was under this reign , fays he , that the Spectator published thofe little diurnal effays which are ftill ...
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