The Spectator, Volume 5William Durell and Company, 1810 - English literature |
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Page 8
... taken up . as to forget his old friend . With a man who is not so well formed for courtship and elegant behavior , such a gentleman as this seldom finds his account in the return of his compliments ; but he will still go on , for he is ...
... taken up . as to forget his old friend . With a man who is not so well formed for courtship and elegant behavior , such a gentleman as this seldom finds his account in the return of his compliments ; but he will still go on , for he is ...
Page 29
... taken up from reading the many agreeable things which have been written . on that subject , for which we are beholden to excel- lent persons who delighted in being retired and ab- stracted from the pleasures that enchant the general ...
... taken up from reading the many agreeable things which have been written . on that subject , for which we are beholden to excel- lent persons who delighted in being retired and ab- stracted from the pleasures that enchant the general ...
Page 33
... taken it for genuine . sent . " MR . SPECTATOR , " HAVING observed in Lilly's grammar how sweet- ly Bacchus and Apollo run in a verse , I have ( to pre- serve the amity between them ) called in Bacchus to the aid of my profession of the ...
... taken it for genuine . sent . " MR . SPECTATOR , " HAVING observed in Lilly's grammar how sweet- ly Bacchus and Apollo run in a verse , I have ( to pre- serve the amity between them ) called in Bacchus to the aid of my profession of the ...
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... taken with it : he says it is given by nature for the use of families ; that no steward's table can be without it ; that it strengthens digestion , excludes surfeits , fevers , and physic , which green wines of any kind can't do . Pray ...
... taken with it : he says it is given by nature for the use of families ; that no steward's table can be without it ; that it strengthens digestion , excludes surfeits , fevers , and physic , which green wines of any kind can't do . Pray ...
Page 36
... taken up with the improvement of their petticoats , that they had not time to attend to any thing else ; but having at length sufficiently adorn- ed 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 else ; but having at length sufficiently adorn- ed their lower parts , they now begin to turn their thoughts upon the other extremity , as ...
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