The SpectatorRichard Eyres, 1778 - Great Britain |
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Page 63
... last I read , not with- out fome refentment ; but I will fuppofe , ' when you fay you expect an inundation of rib- bons and brocades , and to fee many new vani- ties which the women will fall into upon a peace with France , that you ...
... last I read , not with- out fome refentment ; but I will fuppofe , ' when you fay you expect an inundation of rib- bons and brocades , and to fee many new vani- ties which the women will fall into upon a peace with France , that you ...
Page 62
... last winter's productions , which had their fets of admirers , that our pofterity will in a few years degenerate into a race of punsters ; at least , a man may be very excufable for any apprehenfions of this kind , that has feen ...
... last winter's productions , which had their fets of admirers , that our pofterity will in a few years degenerate into a race of punsters ; at least , a man may be very excufable for any apprehenfions of this kind , that has feen ...
Page 66
... last past , and take themfelves to be uncon- cerned in the prefent turn of my writings . When a girl is fafely brought from her nurse , before the is capable of forming one fimple notion of any thing in life , the is delivered to the ...
... last past , and take themfelves to be uncon- cerned in the prefent turn of my writings . When a girl is fafely brought from her nurse , before the is capable of forming one fimple notion of any thing in life , the is delivered to the ...
Page 81
... last night to one of his balls . I muft own to you , Sir , that having never been at any fuch place before , I was very much pleafed and fur- prifed with that part of his entertainment which ⚫he called French Dancing . There were ...
... last night to one of his balls . I muft own to you , Sir , that having never been at any fuch place before , I was very much pleafed and fur- prifed with that part of his entertainment which ⚫he called French Dancing . There were ...
Page 86
... last words to Turnus , fly with fpeed , And bid him timely to my charge fucceed ; Repel the Trojans , and the town relieve : Farewel . DRYDEN . Turnus did not die in fo heroic a manner ; though our poet feems to have had his eye upon ...
... last words to Turnus , fly with fpeed , And bid him timely to my charge fucceed ; Repel the Trojans , and the town relieve : Farewel . DRYDEN . Turnus did not die in fo heroic a manner ; though our poet feems to have had his eye upon ...
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