The British Essayists: TatlerJames Ferguson J. Richardson and Company, 1823 |
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... mean is not expressed in the book itself , supply it by a preface ; but a postscript seems to me the more just way of apology ; because otherwise a man makes an excuse before the offence is committed . All the heroic poets were guessed ...
... mean is not expressed in the book itself , supply it by a preface ; but a postscript seems to me the more just way of apology ; because otherwise a man makes an excuse before the offence is committed . All the heroic poets were guessed ...
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... mean for panegyric into scandal , let it be answered once for all , that if our praises are really designed as raillery , such malevo- lent persons owe their safety from it , only to their being too inconsiderable for history . It is ...
... mean for panegyric into scandal , let it be answered once for all , that if our praises are really designed as raillery , such malevo- lent persons owe their safety from it , only to their being too inconsiderable for history . It is ...
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... mean ; Phillis's insolence , spright- ly . Were you to see him at his own house , and his mistress's lodgings ; to Phillis he appears an obse- quious lover , to Laura an imperious master . Nay , so unjust is the taste of Duumvir , that ...
... mean ; Phillis's insolence , spright- ly . Were you to see him at his own house , and his mistress's lodgings ; to Phillis he appears an obse- quious lover , to Laura an imperious master . Nay , so unjust is the taste of Duumvir , that ...
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... mean time it is melancholy to consider , that the virtue of a wife is like the merit of a poet , never justly valued until after death . From my own Apartment , August 11 . As we have professed that all the actions of men are our ...
... mean time it is melancholy to consider , that the virtue of a wife is like the merit of a poet , never justly valued until after death . From my own Apartment , August 11 . As we have professed that all the actions of men are our ...
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... Harry Coppersmith , in little , who , he says , is at this day worth half a plumb * , by means much more indirect * A plumb is a term in the City for 100,000l . than by false dice . I must confess there appeared 72 57 . TATLER .
... Harry Coppersmith , in little , who , he says , is at this day worth half a plumb * , by means much more indirect * A plumb is a term in the City for 100,000l . than by false dice . I must confess there appeared 72 57 . TATLER .
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