The Spectator, Volume 2J. and R. Tonson, 1767 - English essays |
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... particular and circumftantiated , that they cannot come within general confiderations : for one fuch cafe as one of thefe , there are ten , where a man , to keep up a farce of retinue and grandeur within his own houfe , fhall fhrink at ...
... particular and circumftantiated , that they cannot come within general confiderations : for one fuch cafe as one of thefe , there are ten , where a man , to keep up a farce of retinue and grandeur within his own houfe , fhall fhrink at ...
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... particular care , that the common forms of distress , and the idle pretenders to forrow , about courts , who wanted only fupplies to luxury , fhould never obtain favour by his means : but the diftreffes which arife from the many ...
... particular care , that the common forms of distress , and the idle pretenders to forrow , about courts , who wanted only fupplies to luxury , fhould never obtain favour by his means : but the diftreffes which arife from the many ...
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... particular , after having read over a poem of an eminent author on a victory , I met with feveral fragments of it upon the next rejoicing day , which had been employed in fquibs and crackers , and by that means celebrated its fubject in ...
... particular , after having read over a poem of an eminent author on a victory , I met with feveral fragments of it upon the next rejoicing day , which had been employed in fquibs and crackers , and by that means celebrated its fubject in ...
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... particular pleasure in the reading of them . I can affirm the fame of Mr. Dryden , and know feveral of the most refined writers of our present age who are of the fame humour . I might likewife refer my reader to Moliere's thoughts on ...
... particular pleasure in the reading of them . I can affirm the fame of Mr. Dryden , and know feveral of the most refined writers of our present age who are of the fame humour . I might likewife refer my reader to Moliere's thoughts on ...
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... particular perfons , before we have heard them fpeak a fingle word , or fo much as know who they are . Every paffion gives a particular caft to the counte- nance , and is apt to difcover itfelf in fome feature or other . I have feen an ...
... particular perfons , before we have heard them fpeak a fingle word , or fo much as know who they are . Every paffion gives a particular caft to the counte- nance , and is apt to difcover itfelf in fome feature or other . I have feen an ...
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