The Tatler, 3 tomasC. Whittingham, published by John Sharpe, 1804 - 400 psl. |
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... fancy that this was the soul of some drowsy bellman who used to sleep upon his post , for which he was condemned to do penance in feathers , and distinguish the several watches of the night under the outside of a cock . While I was ...
... fancy that this was the soul of some drowsy bellman who used to sleep upon his post , for which he was condemned to do penance in feathers , and distinguish the several watches of the night under the outside of a cock . While I was ...
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... fancy to adorn so de- serving a limb with a blue garter , he would justly be punished for offending against the most noble order : and I think , the general prostitution of equipage and retinue is as destructive to all distinction , as ...
... fancy to adorn so de- serving a limb with a blue garter , he would justly be punished for offending against the most noble order : and I think , the general prostitution of equipage and retinue is as destructive to all distinction , as ...
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... fancy every thing , and as it is the nature of man in fear , I fancy those things most , which I am most afraid of . Let me therefore earnestly desire you to favour me , under these my apprehensions , with one letter every day , or , if ...
... fancy every thing , and as it is the nature of man in fear , I fancy those things most , which I am most afraid of . Let me therefore earnestly desire you to favour me , under these my apprehensions , with one letter every day , or , if ...
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... fancy rather than their own in this particular ) I can assure them , there is nothing touches our imagination so much as a beautiful woman in a plain dress . There might be more agreeable ornaments found in our own ma- nufacture than ...
... fancy rather than their own in this particular ) I can assure them , there is nothing touches our imagination so much as a beautiful woman in a plain dress . There might be more agreeable ornaments found in our own ma- nufacture than ...
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... fancy , which the soul usually falls into when she is just upon the verge of Death . Thus far Æneas travels in an allegory . The rest of the description is drawn with great exactness , ac- cording to the religion of the heathens , and ...
... fancy , which the soul usually falls into when she is just upon the verge of Death . Thus far Æneas travels in an allegory . The rest of the description is drawn with great exactness , ac- cording to the religion of the heathens , and ...
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acquaintance ADDISON admired agreeable Anticyra Apartment appear beautiful behaviour Bickerstaff called character Cicero coffee-house confess death delight desire discourse dress entertain Erasistratus esquire esteem eyes fancy favour fortune Gascon gentleman give happy hath heart Henry Dodwell honour humour husband imagination Isaac Bickerstaff John Sharpe Joshua Barnes kind knight-errant lady lately learned letter live look lover mankind manner marriage ment mind nation nature neral never night observe occasion OVID particular pass passion persons petitioner petticoat pleased pleasure poet present proper racter reader reason received Roman censors says sense Sheer Lane shew sion soul speak Spect spirit STEELE Stratonice Tatler tell temper Terentia thing thought THURSDAY Timoleon tion Tiresias told town turn Ulysses upholsterer VIRG Virgil virtue walk whole wife woman words write young
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