The Tatler, Volume 1George Atherton Aitken Duckworth, 1898 - English essays |
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... Tatler , have been taken from contemporary engravings in the British Museum ; and the imaginary portrait of Isaac Bickerstaff in the last volume is from a rare picture drawn by Lens in 1710 as a frontispiece to collections of the ...
... Tatler , have been taken from contemporary engravings in the British Museum ; and the imaginary portrait of Isaac Bickerstaff in the last volume is from a rare picture drawn by Lens in 1710 as a frontispiece to collections of the ...
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... Tatler , that he could prove that Partridge was not alive ; for no one living could have written such rubbish as the new almanac . In starting his new paper Steele assumed the name of the astrologer Isaac Bickerstaff , rendered famous ...
... Tatler , that he could prove that Partridge was not alive ; for no one living could have written such rubbish as the new almanac . In starting his new paper Steele assumed the name of the astrologer Isaac Bickerstaff , rendered famous ...
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