The Spectator, Volume 4J. and R. Tonson, 1767 |
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Page 55
... taken up from reading the many agreeable things which have been writ on that fubject , for which we are beholden to excellent perfons who delighted in being retired and abftracted from the pleafures that inchant the generality of the ...
... taken up from reading the many agreeable things which have been writ on that fubject , for which we are beholden to excellent perfons who delighted in being retired and abftracted from the pleafures that inchant the generality of the ...
Page 59
... taken it for genuine . Mr. Spectator , " Having obferved in . Lilly's grammar how sweetly Bacchus and Apollo run in a verfe : I have , to preferve the amity between them , called in Bacchus to the aid of my profeffion of the Theatre ...
... taken it for genuine . Mr. Spectator , " Having obferved in . Lilly's grammar how sweetly Bacchus and Apollo run in a verfe : I have , to preferve the amity between them , called in Bacchus to the aid of my profeffion of the Theatre ...
Page 61
... taken up with the improvement of their petticoats , that they had not time to attend to any thing elfe ; but having at length fufficiently adorned their lower parts , they now begin to turn their thoughts upon the other extremity , as ...
... taken up with the improvement of their petticoats , that they had not time to attend to any thing elfe ; but having at length fufficiently adorned their lower parts , they now begin to turn their thoughts upon the other extremity , as ...
Page 62
that their own thoughts were wholly taken up on those pretty ornaments they wore upon their heads . I am informed that this fashion fpreads daily , info- much that the whig and tory ladies begin already to hang out different colours ...
that their own thoughts were wholly taken up on those pretty ornaments they wore upon their heads . I am informed that this fashion fpreads daily , info- much that the whig and tory ladies begin already to hang out different colours ...
Page 65
... taken off with a pad ; the merchant's wife next to her , who abounds in plenty , is not to have downright money , but the mercenary part of her mind is engaged with a pre- fent of plate and a little ambition . She is made to un ...
... taken off with a pad ; the merchant's wife next to her , who abounds in plenty , is not to have downright money , but the mercenary part of her mind is engaged with a pre- fent of plate and a little ambition . She is made to un ...
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