The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling, Volume 4A. Millar, 1749 |
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... fome of the faid Editors have rifun- derstood and mifreprefented their Auther . = warn thee not too First , then , we haftily to condemn any of the Incidents in this our Hiftory , as impertinent and foreign to our main Defign , becaule ...
... fome of the faid Editors have rifun- derstood and mifreprefented their Auther . = warn thee not too First , then , we haftily to condemn any of the Incidents in this our Hiftory , as impertinent and foreign to our main Defign , becaule ...
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... fome modern Conoiffeurs in Music : Now in the Imagination of the half drunk Clown , as he ftaggers through the Church - yard , or rather Charnel - yard , to his Home , Fear paints the bloody Hob goblin : Now Thieves and Ruffians are a ...
... fome modern Conoiffeurs in Music : Now in the Imagination of the half drunk Clown , as he ftaggers through the Church - yard , or rather Charnel - yard , to his Home , Fear paints the bloody Hob goblin : Now Thieves and Ruffians are a ...
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... fome , perhaps , may wonder the fhould mention , who do not confider that these Words of Exclamation are used by Ladies in a Fright , as Fa , la , la , ra , da , & c . are in Music , only B 6 . as 1 as the Vehicles of Sound , and ...
... fome , perhaps , may wonder the fhould mention , who do not confider that these Words of Exclamation are used by Ladies in a Fright , as Fa , la , la , ra , da , & c . are in Music , only B 6 . as 1 as the Vehicles of Sound , and ...
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... fome Shock to the Decency of the Lady , it made her prefently Amends by . confiderably abating her Fears ; for no foon . er had the Calabalaro enter'd the Room , than he cry'd out : Mr. Fitzpatrick , what the Devil is the Maning of this ...
... fome Shock to the Decency of the Lady , it made her prefently Amends by . confiderably abating her Fears ; for no foon . er had the Calabalaro enter'd the Room , than he cry'd out : Mr. Fitzpatrick , what the Devil is the Maning of this ...
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... fome Circumftances , as the faw con- venient , and totally concealing the Money which he had received . But whereas her Miftrefs had in the Preface to her En- quiry fpoken much in Compaffion for the Fright which the Lady had been in con ...
... fome Circumftances , as the faw con- venient , and totally concealing the Money which he had received . But whereas her Miftrefs had in the Preface to her En- quiry fpoken much in Compaffion for the Fright which the Lady had been in con ...
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