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... converfation , but in Q. Anne's reign , comprehended above forty noblemen and gentlemen of the first rank for quality , merit , and for- tune , firm friends to the Hanoverian succession . + Of this Club , it is said , that Mrs ...
... converfation , but in Q. Anne's reign , comprehended above forty noblemen and gentlemen of the first rank for quality , merit , and for- tune , firm friends to the Hanoverian succession . + Of this Club , it is said , that Mrs ...
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... converfation for the ensuing twelve hours . But there are none to whom this Paper will be more useful , than to the female world . I have often thought there has not been fufficient pains taken in finding out proper employments and ...
... converfation for the ensuing twelve hours . But there are none to whom this Paper will be more useful , than to the female world . I have often thought there has not been fufficient pains taken in finding out proper employments and ...
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... every thing I said . In the midst of my converfation * Pulvillios , " Sweet scents . " 5 with these invisible companions , I discovered in the with 368 N ° 63 . THE SPECTATOR . dream or vifion, which formed into one con- ...
... every thing I said . In the midst of my converfation * Pulvillios , " Sweet scents . " 5 with these invisible companions , I discovered in the with 368 N ° 63 . THE SPECTATOR . dream or vifion, which formed into one con- ...
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... converfation , but ، ، among equals ; and would pleafantly bewail • himself that he always lived in a crowd , but • was the only man in France that could never get into company . This turn of mind made ' him delight in midnight rambles ...
... converfation , but ، ، among equals ; and would pleafantly bewail • himself that he always lived in a crowd , but • was the only man in France that could never get into company . This turn of mind made ' him delight in midnight rambles ...
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... converfation , ibid . Their strongest pas- fion , N. 33. Not to be confidered merely as objects of fight , ibid . Woman of quality , her drefs the products of an hundred cli mates , N. 69 . Y. Yarice , the ftory of her adventure , N. 11 ...
... converfation , ibid . Their strongest pas- fion , N. 33. Not to be confidered merely as objects of fight , ibid . Woman of quality , her drefs the products of an hundred cli mates , N. 69 . Y. Yarice , the ftory of her adventure , N. 11 ...
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Page 152 - When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy dies in me ; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow.
Page 45 - When I lay me down to sleep, I recommend myself to his care; when I awake, I give myself up to his direction. Amidst all the evils that threaten me, I will look up to him for help, and question not but he will either avert them, or turn them to my advantage. Though I know neither the time nor the manner of the death I am to die, I am not at all solicitous about it; because I am sure that he knows them both, and that he will not fail to comfort and support me under them.
Page 74 - Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep : All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Both day and night. How often from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive each to...
Page 149 - When I am in a serious humour, I very often walk by myself in Westminster Abbey; where the gloominess of the place, and the use to which it is applied, with the solemnity of the building, and the condition of the people who lie in it, are apt to fill the mind with a kind of melancholy, or rather thoughtfulness, that is not disagreeable.
Page 232 - To you, good gods, I make my last appeal ; Or clear my virtues, or my crimes reveal. If in the maze of fate I blindly run, And backward trod those paths I sought to shun, Impute my errors to your own decree : My hands are guilty, but my heart is free.
Page 412 - Scotland can witness be, I have not any captain more Of such account as he." Like tidings to King Henry came, Within as short a space, That Percy of Northumberland Was slain in Chevy-Chase. "Now God be with him...
Page 61 - I shall endeavour to point out all those imperfections that are the blemishes, as well as those virtues which are the embellishments of the sex. In the...
Page 151 - As a foreigner is very apt to conceive an idea of the ignorance or politeness of a nation from the turn of their public monuments and inscriptions, they should be submitted to the perusal of men of learning and genius before they are put in execution.
Page 273 - The truth of it is, a man is not qualified for a butt, who has not a good deal of wit and vivacity, even in the ridiculous side of his character. A stupid butt is only fit for the conversation of...
Page 5 - Cocoa-tree, and in the theatres both of Drury-lane and the Haymarket. I have been taken for a merchant upon the Exchange for above these ten years, and sometimes pass for a Jew in the assembly of stockjobbers at Jonathan's.