The Tatler, Volume 1George Atherton Aitken Duckworth, 1898 - English essays |
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... spirit , by one who was fully alive to his own imperfections , and point is usually given to the papers by a sketch of some veiled or imaginary individual . In this way Bickerstaff treats of fops , ' of wags , ' of coquettes , of the ...
... spirit , by one who was fully alive to his own imperfections , and point is usually given to the papers by a sketch of some veiled or imaginary individual . In this way Bickerstaff treats of fops , ' of wags , ' of coquettes , of the ...
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... spirit and genius of the work ; and am far from pretending to modesty in making this acknowledgment . What a man obtains from the good opinion and friendship of worthy men , is a much greater honour than he can possibly reap from any ...
... spirit and genius of the work ; and am far from pretending to modesty in making this acknowledgment . What a man obtains from the good opinion and friendship of worthy men , is a much greater honour than he can possibly reap from any ...
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... spirit and humour , raised it to as high a pitch of reputation as it could possibly arrive at . By this good fortune , the name of Isaac Bickerstaff gained an audience of all who had any taste of wit , and the addition of the ordinary ...
... spirit and humour , raised it to as high a pitch of reputation as it could possibly arrive at . By this good fortune , the name of Isaac Bickerstaff gained an audience of all who had any taste of wit , and the addition of the ordinary ...
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... spirit and genius are justly to be esteemed as considerable agents in it , we shall not , upon a dearth of news , present you with musty foreign edicts , or dull proclamations , but shall divide our relation of the passages which occur ...
... spirit and genius are justly to be esteemed as considerable agents in it , we shall not , upon a dearth of news , present you with musty foreign edicts , or dull proclamations , but shall divide our relation of the passages which occur ...
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... spirit of one , who has seen the world enough to undervalue it with good breeding . The author must certainly be a man of wisdom , as well as piety , and have spent much time in the exercise of both . The real causes of the decay of the ...
... spirit of one , who has seen the world enough to undervalue it with good breeding . The author must certainly be a man of wisdom , as well as piety , and have spent much time in the exercise of both . The real causes of the decay of the ...
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