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Page 15
... delight ! Awake : the morning shines, and the fresh field Calls ns ; we lose the prime, to mark how spring Our tender plants, how blows the citron grove, What drops the myrrh, and what the balmy reed, How nature paints her colours, how ...
... delight ! Awake : the morning shines, and the fresh field Calls ns ; we lose the prime, to mark how spring Our tender plants, how blows the citron grove, What drops the myrrh, and what the balmy reed, How nature paints her colours, how ...
Page 150
... delight has been in being employed about her person ; and indeed she is very seldom out of humour for a woman of her quality. But here lies my complaint. Sir. To bear with me is all the encouragement she is pleased to bestow upon me ...
... delight has been in being employed about her person ; and indeed she is very seldom out of humour for a woman of her quality. But here lies my complaint. Sir. To bear with me is all the encouragement she is pleased to bestow upon me ...
Page 163
... delight in sorting a company that has something of burlesque and ridicule in its appearance. I shall make myself understood by the following example. — One of the wits of the last age, who was a man of a good estate.f thought he never ...
... delight in sorting a company that has something of burlesque and ridicule in its appearance. I shall make myself understood by the following example. — One of the wits of the last age, who was a man of a good estate.f thought he never ...
Page 165
... and uncommon characters of mankind are the game which you delight in, «nd as I look upon you to be the greatest sportsman, or, if you please, the Nimrod among this species of writers, I thought No. 371.] THE SPECTATOR. 165.
... and uncommon characters of mankind are the game which you delight in, «nd as I look upon you to be the greatest sportsman, or, if you please, the Nimrod among this species of writers, I thought No. 371.] THE SPECTATOR. 165.
Page 173
... delight. I shall therefore, set before my reader a scene of this kind of distress in private life, for the speculation of this day. An eminent citizen, who had lived in good fashion and credit, was by a train of accidents, and by an ...
... delight. I shall therefore, set before my reader a scene of this kind of distress in private life, for the speculation of this day. An eminent citizen, who had lived in good fashion and credit, was by a train of accidents, and by an ...
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