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... Lady's bed - chamber , or perching upon a King's throne ; be- fides the inconveniencies which the heads of the au- diences may fometimes fuffer from them . I am credibly informed , that there was once a defign of cafting into an opera ...
... Lady's bed - chamber , or perching upon a King's throne ; be- fides the inconveniencies which the heads of the au- diences may fometimes fuffer from them . I am credibly informed , that there was once a defign of cafting into an opera ...
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... lady , how- ever , recovering herself after a little fpace , faid to her hufband , with a figh , my dear , misfortunes never come " fingle . " My friend , I found , acted but an under- part at his table ; and being a man of more good ...
... lady , how- ever , recovering herself after a little fpace , faid to her hufband , with a figh , my dear , misfortunes never come " fingle . " My friend , I found , acted but an under- part at his table ; and being a man of more good ...
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... lady of the houfe , I difpo- fed of my knife and fork in two parallel lines , which is the figure I shall always lay ... lady's looks , that the regarded me as a very odd kind of fellow , with an unfortunate afpect : for which reason I ...
... lady of the houfe , I difpo- fed of my knife and fork in two parallel lines , which is the figure I shall always lay ... lady's looks , that the regarded me as a very odd kind of fellow , with an unfortunate afpect : for which reason I ...
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... lady does not live far from Covent - Garden , and that I am not the firft cully whom she has paffed herself ' upon for a countefs . " " · Thus , Sir , you fee how I have mistaken a cloud for a Juno : and if you can make any ufe of this ...
... lady does not live far from Covent - Garden , and that I am not the firft cully whom she has paffed herself ' upon for a countefs . " " · Thus , Sir , you fee how I have mistaken a cloud for a Juno : and if you can make any ufe of this ...
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... Lady ; but when we confider this queftion be- tween the fexes , which has been either a point of dispute or raillery ever fince there were men and women , let us take facts from plain people , and from fuch as have not either ambition ...
... Lady ; but when we confider this queftion be- tween the fexes , which has been either a point of dispute or raillery ever fince there were men and women , let us take facts from plain people , and from fuch as have not either ambition ...
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