 I hear likewise, that there is a great desolation among the gentlemen and ladies who were the ornaments of the town, and used to shine in plumes and diadems ; the heroes being most of them pressed, and the queens beating hemp.  The Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff - Стр. 142авторы: Sir Richard Steele - 1712Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
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...of nature. A tiger will sell almost as cheap as an ox; and I am credibly informed a man may purchase a cat with three legs for very near the value of one with four."1 One of the reasons for the fair being "broke," as The Tatler phrases it, is indicated in a... | |
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...nature. A tiger will sell almost as cheap as an ox ; and I am credibly informed, a man may purchase a cat with three legs, for very near the value of one with four. I hear likewise, that there is a great desolation among the gentlemen and ladies who were the ornaments of... | |
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...1700-11 Tatler (British Classics 1804) I, no. 20, 154, / hear likewise that there is a great desolation among the gentlemen and ladies who were the ornaments of the town (Ch.). | 1700-11 Tatler (idem) V, no. 33, 279, I find among my brother's papers the following letter... | |
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...1700-11 Tatler (British Classics 1804) I, no. 20, 154, I hear likewise that there is a great desolation among the gentlemen and ladies who were the ornaments of the town (Ch.). | 1700-11 Tatler (idem) V, no. 33, 279, I find among my brother's papers the following letter... | |
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