The Spectator, Volume 9William Durell and Company, 1810 - English literature |
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... sword , and in dancing , has been employed by you as lower arts , and as they have occasionally served to cover , or introduce the talents of a skilful minister . But your abilities have not appeared only in one nation iv DEDICATION .
... sword , and in dancing , has been employed by you as lower arts , and as they have occasionally served to cover , or introduce the talents of a skilful minister . But your abilities have not appeared only in one nation iv DEDICATION .
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... serve their turn . He showed me many other kind of fools which put me quite out of humor with the place . At last he carried me to the right paths , where I found true and solid pleasure , which entertained me all the way , till we came ...
... serve their turn . He showed me many other kind of fools which put me quite out of humor with the place . At last he carried me to the right paths , where I found true and solid pleasure , which entertained me all the way , till we came ...
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... serve them from being public spectacles of folly in our streets . I say , two or three touches with your own pen , for I have really observed , Mr. Spec , that those Spectators which are so prettily laced down the sides with little c's ...
... serve them from being public spectacles of folly in our streets . I say , two or three touches with your own pen , for I have really observed , Mr. Spec , that those Spectators which are so prettily laced down the sides with little c's ...
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... serves what passes in this town , may very well frame to himself a notion of their riots and debaucheries all night , and their apparent preparation for them all day . It is not to be doubted but these Romans never passed any of their ...
... serves what passes in this town , may very well frame to himself a notion of their riots and debaucheries all night , and their apparent preparation for them all day . It is not to be doubted but these Romans never passed any of their ...
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... served that the author of a Folio , in all companies and conversations , sets himself above the author of aQuarto the author of a Quarto , above the author of an Octavo : and so on , by a gradual descent and subordination to an author ...
... served that the author of a Folio , in all companies and conversations , sets himself above the author of aQuarto the author of a Quarto , above the author of an Octavo : and so on , by a gradual descent and subordination to an author ...
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