The British Essayists: SpectatorAlexander Chalmers J. M'Creery, Printer, 1817 |
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... speak- ing of it both as a passion and as real fire , surprises the reader with those seeming resemblances or con- tradictions , that make up all the wit in this kind of writing . Mixt wit therefore is a composition of pun and true wit ...
... speak- ing of it both as a passion and as real fire , surprises the reader with those seeming resemblances or con- tradictions , that make up all the wit in this kind of writing . Mixt wit therefore is a composition of pun and true wit ...
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... the following words : Ovid , ' says he , speaking of Virgil's fiction of Dido and Æneas , takes up after him , even in the same age , and makes an it ancient heroine of Virgil's new created Dido ; dictates a 6 No 62 . SPECTATOR .
... the following words : Ovid , ' says he , speaking of Virgil's fiction of Dido and Æneas , takes up after him , even in the same age , and makes an it ancient heroine of Virgil's new created Dido ; dictates a 6 No 62 . SPECTATOR .
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... speak but that the country agrees very well with the new Queen . ' After very much enquiry , I found this man of universal loyalty was a wholesale dealer in silks and ribbons . His way is , it seems , if he hires a weaver or workman ...
... speak but that the country agrees very well with the new Queen . ' After very much enquiry , I found this man of universal loyalty was a wholesale dealer in silks and ribbons . His way is , it seems , if he hires a weaver or workman ...
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... speak her sense of marriage very ingenuously : I think , ' says she , I might be brought to endure him , and that is ... Speaking of that friend , he declares , their being much together , makes the women think the better of his under ...
... speak her sense of marriage very ingenuously : I think , ' says she , I might be brought to endure him , and that is ... Speaking of that friend , he declares , their being much together , makes the women think the better of his under ...
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... speak to one another civilly , hate one another heartily ; and because it is vulgar to lie and soak together , we have each of us our several settle - bed . That of soaking together ' is as good as if Dorimant had spoken it himself ...
... speak to one another civilly , hate one another heartily ; and because it is vulgar to lie and soak together , we have each of us our several settle - bed . That of soaking together ' is as good as if Dorimant had spoken it himself ...
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