The Spectator: Corrected from the Originals, Volume 2George B. Whittaker, 1827 |
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... head - dresses 99 100 101 The chief point of honour in men and women- Duelling • Complaints of sickness - Characters of Harry Tersett and Varilas . Uncertainty of fame - Specimen of a history of the reign of Anne I. 102 Exercise of the ...
... head - dresses 99 100 101 The chief point of honour in men and women- Duelling • Complaints of sickness - Characters of Harry Tersett and Varilas . Uncertainty of fame - Specimen of a history of the reign of Anne I. 102 Exercise of the ...
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... head of mixt wit , without owning that the admirable poet , out of whom I have taken the examples of it , had as much true wit as any author that ever writ ; and indeed all other talents of an extraordinary genius . It may be expected ...
... head of mixt wit , without owning that the admirable poet , out of whom I have taken the examples of it , had as much true wit as any author that ever writ ; and indeed all other talents of an extraordinary genius . It may be expected ...
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... head upon a horse's neck , Or limbs of beasts , of the most different kinds , Cover'd with feathers of all sorts of birds ; Would you not laugh , and think the painter mad ? Trust me that book is as ridiculous , Whose incoherent style ...
... head upon a horse's neck , Or limbs of beasts , of the most different kinds , Cover'd with feathers of all sorts of birds ; Would you not laugh , and think the painter mad ? Trust me that book is as ridiculous , Whose incoherent style ...
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... head to foot with the same kind of dress , though perhaps there was not the least resemblance in their faces . By this means an old man was sometimes mistaken for a boy , a woman for a man , and a black - a - moor for a European , which ...
... head to foot with the same kind of dress , though perhaps there was not the least resemblance in their faces . By this means an old man was sometimes mistaken for a boy , a woman for a man , and a black - a - moor for a European , which ...
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... head . Tragedy was crowned with cypress , and covered with robes dip- ped in blood . Satire had smiles in her look , and a dagger under her garment . Rhetoric was known by her thunderbolt ; and Comedy by her mask . After several other ...
... head . Tragedy was crowned with cypress , and covered with robes dip- ped in blood . Satire had smiles in her look , and a dagger under her garment . Rhetoric was known by her thunderbolt ; and Comedy by her mask . After several other ...
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The Spectator: Corrected from the Originals, Volume 8 Richard Steele,Joseph Addison,Nathaniel Ogle No preview available - 2016 |
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