The Spectator: ...Phil. Crampton, 1737 |
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... Friends has a greater Sense of your Merit in general , and of the Favours you every Day do us , than , SIR , Your most Obedient , and moft Humble Servant , Richard Steele . THE SPECTATOR . VO L. VII . No.474 . Wednesday The Dedication .
... Friends has a greater Sense of your Merit in general , and of the Favours you every Day do us , than , SIR , Your most Obedient , and moft Humble Servant , Richard Steele . THE SPECTATOR . VO L. VII . No.474 . Wednesday The Dedication .
Pagina 2
... moft requifite . I confefs at prefent I have not that . Command of these Convulfions , as is neceffary to be good Company ; therefore I beg you would publish this Letter , and let me be known all at once for a queer Fellow , and avoided ...
... moft requifite . I confefs at prefent I have not that . Command of these Convulfions , as is neceffary to be good Company ; therefore I beg you would publish this Letter , and let me be known all at once for a queer Fellow , and avoided ...
Pagina 8
... moft serious Look , whether I would advise him to marry my Lady Betty Single , who , by the way , is one of the greatest Fortunes about Town . I ftar'd him full in the Face upon fo ftrange a Question ; up- on which he immediately gave ...
... moft serious Look , whether I would advise him to marry my Lady Betty Single , who , by the way , is one of the greatest Fortunes about Town . I ftar'd him full in the Face upon fo ftrange a Question ; up- on which he immediately gave ...
Pagina 20
... moft humble Servant , A. B. THE propofal of my Correfpondent I cannot but look upon as an ingenious Method of placing perfons ( whofe Parts make them ambitious to exert themfelves in frivo- lous things ) in a Rank by themselves . In ...
... moft humble Servant , A. B. THE propofal of my Correfpondent I cannot but look upon as an ingenious Method of placing perfons ( whofe Parts make them ambitious to exert themfelves in frivo- lous things ) in a Rank by themselves . In ...
Pagina 22
... moft indifferent things ; while the married Man , who has not bid adieu to the Fashions and falfeGallantries of the Town , is perplexed with every thing around him . In both these Cafes Men cannot , indeed , make a fillier Fi- gure ...
... moft indifferent things ; while the married Man , who has not bid adieu to the Fashions and falfeGallantries of the Town , is perplexed with every thing around him . In both these Cafes Men cannot , indeed , make a fillier Fi- gure ...
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