The Spectator, Volume 5William Durell and Company, 1810 - English literature |
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Page 9
... thought it a very great absurdity in the company ( during the royal presence ) to exchange salutations from all parts of the room , when certainly common sense should suggest , that all regards at that time should be engaged , and ...
... thought it a very great absurdity in the company ( during the royal presence ) to exchange salutations from all parts of the room , when certainly common sense should suggest , that all regards at that time should be engaged , and ...
Page 11
... thoughts , sit with my spectacles on writing love letters to the beauties that have been long since in their graves . This is to warm my heart with the faint memory of delights which were once agreea- ble to me but how much happier ...
... thoughts , sit with my spectacles on writing love letters to the beauties that have been long since in their graves . This is to warm my heart with the faint memory of delights which were once agreea- ble to me but how much happier ...
Page 12
... old friend , Jack Tawdry , may buy him a cane , and not creep with the air of a strut . I must add to all this , that if it were not for one pleasure , which I thought a very mean one till of very late years , 12 No. 260 . THE SPECTATOR .
... old friend , Jack Tawdry , may buy him a cane , and not creep with the air of a strut . I must add to all this , that if it were not for one pleasure , which I thought a very mean one till of very late years , 12 No. 260 . THE SPECTATOR .
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... thought what he proposed the effect of humor and old age , which I am now convinced had reason and good sense in it . I cannot now go into the parlor to him , and make his heart glad with an account of a matter which was of no ...
... thought what he proposed the effect of humor and old age , which I am now convinced had reason and good sense in it . I cannot now go into the parlor to him , and make his heart glad with an account of a matter which was of no ...
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... thoughts and in- clinations when he was a son , and every son remem- bered what he expected from his father , when he him- self was in a state of dependance , this one reflection would preserve men from being dissolute or rigid in these ...
... thoughts and in- clinations when he was a son , and every son remem- bered what he expected from his father , when he him- self was in a state of dependance , this one reflection would preserve men from being dissolute or rigid in these ...
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