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Joseph Addison. town , he lives in Soho - Square . It is faid , he keeps himself a batchelor , by reafon he was croffed in love by a perverse beautiful widow of the next county to him . Before this difappointment , Sir Roger was what you ...
Joseph Addison. town , he lives in Soho - Square . It is faid , he keeps himself a batchelor , by reafon he was croffed in love by a perverse beautiful widow of the next county to him . Before this difappointment , Sir Roger was what you ...
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... lives in ; he has read all , but approves of very few . His familiarity with the customs , manners , actions , and writings of the ancients , makes him a very delicate obferver of what occurs to him in the prefent world . He is an ...
... lives in ; he has read all , but approves of very few . His familiarity with the customs , manners , actions , and writings of the ancients , makes him a very delicate obferver of what occurs to him in the prefent world . He is an ...
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... lives like a man in a palfy , with one fide of him dead : While perhaps he enjoys the fatisfaction of luxury , of wealth , of ambition , he has loft the taste of good - will , of friendship , of inno- cence . Scarecrow , the beggar in ...
... lives like a man in a palfy , with one fide of him dead : While perhaps he enjoys the fatisfaction of luxury , of wealth , of ambition , he has loft the taste of good - will , of friendship , of inno- cence . Scarecrow , the beggar in ...
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... 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 ad- venture ...
... 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 ad- venture ...
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... live in the world without hav- ing any thing to do in it ; and either by the affluence of their fortunes , or laziness of their difpofitions , have no other bufinefs with the reft of mankind but to look upon them . Under this clafs of ...
... live in the world without hav- ing any thing to do in it ; and either by the affluence of their fortunes , or laziness of their difpofitions , have no other bufinefs with the reft of mankind but to look upon them . Under this clafs of ...
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