The Spectator: ...Phil. Crampton, 1737 |
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Page 148
... fomething fo moving in the very Image of weeping Beauty , it ⚫ would be worthy his Art to provide , that these eloquent Drops may no more be lavished on Trifles , or employed as Servants to their wayward Wills ; but reserved for ...
... fomething fo moving in the very Image of weeping Beauty , it ⚫ would be worthy his Art to provide , that these eloquent Drops may no more be lavished on Trifles , or employed as Servants to their wayward Wills ; but reserved for ...
Page 155
... fomething very extravagant , without your speedy Advice to , 6 SIR , Your most humble Servant . I am forry I cannot answer this impatient Gentleman but by another Question . Dear Correfpondent , ' W OULD you marry to please other People ...
... fomething very extravagant , without your speedy Advice to , 6 SIR , Your most humble Servant . I am forry I cannot answer this impatient Gentleman but by another Question . Dear Correfpondent , ' W OULD you marry to please other People ...
Page 161
... fomething here which would move a generous Mind , like that of him who writ to me , I fhall tranfcribe an handsome Paragraph of Dr. Snape's Sermon on these Charities , which my Cor- refpondent enclosed with his Letter . THE wife ...
... fomething here which would move a generous Mind , like that of him who writ to me , I fhall tranfcribe an handsome Paragraph of Dr. Snape's Sermon on these Charities , which my Cor- refpondent enclosed with his Letter . THE wife ...
Page 164
... fomething of Good - house - wifry , and not have given the malicious World occafion to think , that Drefs and Trifle have al- ways the uppermoft Place in a Woman's Thoughts . I know feveral of my fair Readers urge , in defence of this ...
... fomething of Good - house - wifry , and not have given the malicious World occafion to think , that Drefs and Trifle have al- ways the uppermoft Place in a Woman's Thoughts . I know feveral of my fair Readers urge , in defence of this ...
Page 165
... fomething odd and fingular , but if the Humour of Pin - money prevails , I think it would be very proper for every Gentleman of an Eftate to mark out fo many Acres of it under the Title of The Pins . H 3 L Friday , FFFSFF3669 ...
... fomething odd and fingular , but if the Humour of Pin - money prevails , I think it would be very proper for every Gentleman of an Eftate to mark out fo many Acres of it under the Title of The Pins . H 3 L Friday , FFFSFF3669 ...
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