The Spectator: ...Phil. Crampton, 1737 |
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... Countries of all that had op- posed the Cause of Liberty , and truck a Terror into the Armies of France , had in the midst of His high Station a Behaviour as gentle as is usual in the first A 3 . Steps Steps towards Greatness ? And if ...
... Countries of all that had op- posed the Cause of Liberty , and truck a Terror into the Armies of France , had in the midst of His high Station a Behaviour as gentle as is usual in the first A 3 . Steps Steps towards Greatness ? And if ...
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... Country a Man feldom fets up fora Poet , without attacking the Reputation of all his Brothers in the Art . The Ignorance of the Moderns , the Scriblers of the Age , the Decay of Poetry , are the Topicks of De- traction , with which he ...
... Country a Man feldom fets up fora Poet , without attacking the Reputation of all his Brothers in the Art . The Ignorance of the Moderns , the Scriblers of the Age , the Decay of Poetry , are the Topicks of De- traction , with which he ...
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... Country Scenes fo foftly , is a little extravagant ; one would think you lived the Lives of Sylvan Deities , or roved among the Walks of Paradife , ⚫ like the first happy Pair . But pr'ythee leave thefe Whim- ' fies , and come to Town ...
... Country Scenes fo foftly , is a little extravagant ; one would think you lived the Lives of Sylvan Deities , or roved among the Walks of Paradife , ⚫ like the first happy Pair . But pr'ythee leave thefe Whim- ' fies , and come to Town ...
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... Country - women , that they had rather called it Needle - money , which might have implied fomething of Good - house - wifry , and not have given the malicious World occafion to think , that Drefs and Trifle have al- ways the uppermoft ...
... Country - women , that they had rather called it Needle - money , which might have implied fomething of Good - house - wifry , and not have given the malicious World occafion to think , that Drefs and Trifle have al- ways the uppermoft ...
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... Country Squire , who , being not a little fhocked at the Proceeding of a young Widow that would not recede from her Demands of Pin - money , was fo enraged at her mercenary Temper , that he told her in great Wrath , As much as the ...
... Country Squire , who , being not a little fhocked at the Proceeding of a young Widow that would not recede from her Demands of Pin - money , was fo enraged at her mercenary Temper , that he told her in great Wrath , As much as the ...
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