The Tatler, Volume 1George Atherton Aitken Duckworth, 1898 - English essays |
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... fortune and life are at this day precarious ; while his estate is liable to the demands of gamesters , through a false sense of justice ; and to the demands of duellists , through a false sense of honour . As to the first of these ...
... fortune and life are at this day precarious ; while his estate is liable to the demands of gamesters , through a false sense of justice ; and to the demands of duellists , through a false sense of honour . As to the first of these ...
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... fortunes at the Court . He was made a Commissioner of Customs and afterwards Auditor of the Imprests . He was admitted to the Kit - Cat Club , and in 1706 the interest of Godolphin procured him a seat in the House of Commons . Upon the ...
... fortunes at the Court . He was made a Commissioner of Customs and afterwards Auditor of the Imprests . He was admitted to the Kit - Cat Club , and in 1706 the interest of Godolphin procured him a seat in the House of Commons . Upon the ...
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... fortune , the name of Isaac Bickerstaff gained an audience of all who had any taste of wit , and the addition of the ordinary occurrences of common journals of news brought in a multitude of other readers . I could not , I confess ...
... fortune , the name of Isaac Bickerstaff gained an audience of all who had any taste of wit , and the addition of the ordinary occurrences of common journals of news brought in a multitude of other readers . I could not , I confess ...
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... fortunes were ruined by his attachment to Charles I. Tony Aston , in his " Supplement to Cibber's Apology , " says she was woman to Lady Shelton , of Norfolk , his godmother ; and Curll tells us that she was early taken under the ...
... fortunes were ruined by his attachment to Charles I. Tony Aston , in his " Supplement to Cibber's Apology , " says she was woman to Lady Shelton , of Norfolk , his godmother ; and Curll tells us that she was early taken under the ...
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... fortune , and his very being depends on her , the termagant for whom he sighs , is in love with a fellow , who stares in the glass all the time he is with her , and lets her plainly see , she may possibly be his rival , but never his ...
... fortune , and his very being depends on her , the termagant for whom he sighs , is in love with a fellow , who stares in the glass all the time he is with her , and lets her plainly see , she may possibly be his rival , but never his ...
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