The Spectator, Volume 5William Durell and Company, 1810 - English literature |
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Page 11
... leave our desires , they will leave us . It is far otherwise ; I am now as vain in my dress , and as flippant if I see a pretty woman , as when in my youth I stood upon a bench in the pit to survey the whole circle of beauties . folly ...
... leave our desires , they will leave us . It is far otherwise ; I am now as vain in my dress , and as flippant if I see a pretty woman , as when in my youth I stood upon a bench in the pit to survey the whole circle of beauties . folly ...
Page 33
... leave him . ( 6 ) I have an inclination to print the following letters : for I have heard the author of them has somewhere or other seen me ; and , by an excellent faculty in mimicry , my correspondents tell me , he can assume my air ...
... leave him . ( 6 ) I have an inclination to print the following letters : for I have heard the author of them has somewhere or other seen me ; and , by an excellent faculty in mimicry , my correspondents tell me , he can assume my air ...
Page 63
... leave these wise conjecturers to their own imagina- tions , and produce the three following letters for the entertainment of the day . " SIR , " I WAS last Thursday in an assembly of ladies , where there were thirteen different colored ...
... leave these wise conjecturers to their own imagina- tions , and produce the three following letters for the entertainment of the day . " SIR , " I WAS last Thursday in an assembly of ladies , where there were thirteen different colored ...
Page 64
... leave to sub- scribe myself " MR . SPECTATOR , " TOM TRIPPIT . " " YOUR readers are so well pleased with your cha- racter of Sir Roger de Coverley , that there appeared a sensible joy in every coffee - house upon hearing the old knight ...
... leave to sub- scribe myself " MR . SPECTATOR , " TOM TRIPPIT . " " YOUR readers are so well pleased with your cha- racter of Sir Roger de Coverley , that there appeared a sensible joy in every coffee - house upon hearing the old knight ...
Page 66
... familiarly as if you were ac- quainted with her as well as myself : but I will tell you all , as fast as the alternate interruptions of love There is a most and anger will give me leave 666 No. 272 ; THE SPECTATOR . No. 272. ...
... familiarly as if you were ac- quainted with her as well as myself : but I will tell you all , as fast as the alternate interruptions of love There is a most and anger will give me leave 666 No. 272 ; THE SPECTATOR . No. 272. ...
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