The Adventurer: Volume the First [-second].J. Payne, at Pope's Head in Pater-noster row, 1788 - English essays |
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... myself the next moment , with inex- " preffible grief and astonishment , under the " fhape of a mongrel PUPPY in the ftable of an " inn , that was kept by a man who had been " butler to my father , and had married the cook . but I " I ...
... myself the next moment , with inex- " preffible grief and astonishment , under the " fhape of a mongrel PUPPY in the ftable of an " inn , that was kept by a man who had been " butler to my father , and had married the cook . but I " I ...
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... myself down upon them : but a man who " was plaining a board , obferving that I was a " strange dog and of a mongrel breed , refolved " to make himself and his companions merry at " my expence for this purpose , having made 66 a hole ...
... myself down upon them : but a man who " was plaining a board , obferving that I was a " strange dog and of a mongrel breed , refolved " to make himself and his companions merry at " my expence for this purpose , having made 66 a hole ...
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... myself in a farm - yard ; and fearing that " I should be worried by the mastiff which I saw " at a distance , I continued my flight : but fome " peasants who were at work in a neighbouring " barn , perceiving that I ran without being ...
... myself in a farm - yard ; and fearing that " I should be worried by the mastiff which I saw " at a distance , I continued my flight : but fome " peasants who were at work in a neighbouring " barn , perceiving that I ran without being ...
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... myself , I was taken by my tyrant's mother when she went to pay " her rent , as a prefent to her landlord's daugh- * ter , a young lady who was extremely beauti- < ful , and in the eighteenth year of her age . " My captivity now began ...
... myself , I was taken by my tyrant's mother when she went to pay " her rent , as a prefent to her landlord's daugh- * ter , a young lady who was extremely beauti- < ful , and in the eighteenth year of her age . " My captivity now began ...
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... " devoured me . I WAS not difpleafed to find myself once " more at large ; delivered from blindness and captivity , and ftill able to sport upon the " breeze C 6 But breeze in the form of a COCKCHAFER . " No 5 . 39 THE ADVENTURER .
... " devoured me . I WAS not difpleafed to find myself once " more at large ; delivered from blindness and captivity , and ftill able to sport upon the " breeze C 6 But breeze in the form of a COCKCHAFER . " No 5 . 39 THE ADVENTURER .
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