The Spectator, Volume 2J. and R. Tonson, 1767 - English essays |
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... young ; and the boy is to marry as foon as he is at age to redeem it , and find portions for his fifters . This forfooth , is no great inconvenience to him ; for he may wench , keep a pub- lic table or feed dogs like a worthy English ...
... young ; and the boy is to marry as foon as he is at age to redeem it , and find portions for his fifters . This forfooth , is no great inconvenience to him ; for he may wench , keep a pub- lic table or feed dogs like a worthy English ...
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... young , and tir'd with sport and play , " And bound with pleafing fleep I lay , " Doves cover'd me with myrtle boughs . " CREECH . I have heard that the late Lord Dorfet , who had the greatest wit tempered with the greatest candor , and ...
... young , and tir'd with sport and play , " And bound with pleafing fleep I lay , " Doves cover'd me with myrtle boughs . " CREECH . I have heard that the late Lord Dorfet , who had the greatest wit tempered with the greatest candor , and ...
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... young girls about town , I need be particular in nothing but the make of my • face , which has the misfortune to be exactly oval . This I take to proceed from a temper that naturally inclines me both to speak and to hear .. With this ...
... young girls about town , I need be particular in nothing but the make of my • face , which has the misfortune to be exactly oval . This I take to proceed from a temper that naturally inclines me both to speak and to hear .. With this ...
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... young merchants too long near ' Change , and another fair one who keeps the ftudents at her houfe when they should be at ftudy . It would be worth your while to fee how the Idola- ⚫ters alternately offer incenfe to their Idols , and ...
... young merchants too long near ' Change , and another fair one who keeps the ftudents at her houfe when they should be at ftudy . It would be worth your while to fee how the Idola- ⚫ters alternately offer incenfe to their Idols , and ...
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... young man was taken with leads in his pockets below bridge , where he intended to drown himself , because his Idol would wash the dish in which fhe had but just drank tea , before fhe would let him ufe it . · C I am , Sir , a perfon ...
... young man was taken with leads in his pockets below bridge , where he intended to drown himself , because his Idol would wash the dish in which fhe had but just drank tea , before fhe would let him ufe it . · C I am , Sir , a perfon ...
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