The Spectator ...John Sharpe, 1803 |
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Whilst I was in this learned body , I applied myself with so much diligence to my studies , that there are very few celebrated books , either in the learned or the modern tongues , which I am not acquainted with . Upon the death of my ...
Whilst I was in this learned body , I applied myself with so much diligence to my studies , that there are very few celebrated books , either in the learned or the modern tongues , which I am not acquainted with . Upon the death of my ...
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... learned Menage , whom I have translated word for word . 66 The first occasion of these bouts - rimez made them in some manner excusable , as they were ta - ks which the French ladies used to impose on their lovers . But when a grave ...
... learned Menage , whom I have translated word for word . 66 The first occasion of these bouts - rimez made them in some manner excusable , as they were ta - ks which the French ladies used to impose on their lovers . But when a grave ...
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... learned friend had dined that day with Mr. Swan , the fa- mous punster ; and desiring him to gir . me some account of Mr. Swan's conversation , he told me that he generally talked in the Paranomasia , that he some- times gave into the ...
... learned friend had dined that day with Mr. Swan , the fa- mous punster ; and desiring him to gir . me some account of Mr. Swan's conversation , he told me that he generally talked in the Paranomasia , that he some- times gave into the ...
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