The British Essayists: TatlerJames Ferguson J. Richardson and Company, 1823 |
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... eyes ; and I knew that nothing could help him forward so well , as hearing verses which he would believe worse than his own . I read him , therefore , the Brussels Postscript ; after which I recited some heroic lines of my own , which ...
... eyes ; and I knew that nothing could help him forward so well , as hearing verses which he would believe worse than his own . I read him , therefore , the Brussels Postscript ; after which I recited some heroic lines of my own , which ...
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... eyes , and discovered that the other had a painful superiority over him . After some further discourse , they took leave . The plain gentleman went down towards Thames - street , in order to be present , at least , at the oaths taken at ...
... eyes , and discovered that the other had a painful superiority over him . After some further discourse , they took leave . The plain gentleman went down towards Thames - street , in order to be present , at least , at the oaths taken at ...
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... eyes , that might incite your laughter ? ' He had no sooner spoken the word , but he immediately quitted his na- tural shape , and talked to me in a very different air and tone from what he had used before : upon which all that sat near ...
... eyes , that might incite your laughter ? ' He had no sooner spoken the word , but he immediately quitted his na- tural shape , and talked to me in a very different air and tone from what he had used before : upon which all that sat near ...
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... eye - shot ; that is the time when the fan , which is all the armour of a woman , is of most use in our defence ; for ... eyes open between every other sentence in his discourse ; him have I made a leader in assemblies ; and one blow on ...
... eye - shot ; that is the time when the fan , which is all the armour of a woman , is of most use in our defence ; for ... eyes open between every other sentence in his discourse ; him have I made a leader in assemblies ; and one blow on ...
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... with our noblest houses , and fixed her in the eye of the world , where her story had not been now to be related : for her good qualities had made her the town # object of universal esteem among the polite part of mankind 46 53 . TATLER .
... with our noblest houses , and fixed her in the eye of the world , where her story had not been now to be related : for her good qualities had made her the town # object of universal esteem among the polite part of mankind 46 53 . TATLER .
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