Novels and Miscellaneous Works: With Prefaces and Notes, Including Those Attributed to Sir Walter Scott, Volume 4G. Bell and Sons, 1724 |
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Page 151
... followed . The conversation we had was generally courtly , but civil : at length some gentlemen proposed to play , and made what they called a party . This , it seems , was a contrivance of one of my female hangers - on , for , as I ...
... followed . The conversation we had was generally courtly , but civil : at length some gentlemen proposed to play , and made what they called a party . This , it seems , was a contrivance of one of my female hangers - on , for , as I ...
Page 158
... followed by a throng of great persons , the person with his hat on said , Madam Roxana , you perform to admiration . I was prepared , and offered to kneel to kiss his hand , but he declined it , and saluted me , and so , passing back ...
... followed by a throng of great persons , the person with his hat on said , Madam Roxana , you perform to admiration . I was prepared , and offered to kneel to kiss his hand , but he declined it , and saluted me , and so , passing back ...
Page 193
... followed diligently to the gate of an inn in Bishopsgate - street , and seeing him go in , made no doubt but he had him fast , but was confounded when , upon inquiry , he found the inn was a thoroughfare into another street , and that ...
... followed diligently to the gate of an inn in Bishopsgate - street , and seeing him go in , made no doubt but he had him fast , but was confounded when , upon inquiry , he found the inn was a thoroughfare into another street , and that ...
Page 279
... followed us , as she thought , to London ; but the Quaker had answered her , that she knew nothing of it , which was indeed true ; and had admonished her to be easy , and not hunt after people of such fashion as we were , as if we were ...
... followed us , as she thought , to London ; but the Quaker had answered her , that she knew nothing of it , which was indeed true ; and had admonished her to be easy , and not hunt after people of such fashion as we were , as if we were ...
Page 307
... followed me , and I never saw the Quaker or England any more . We were no sooner on board than we hoisted sail ; the anchors being up , and the wind fair , we cut the waves at a great rate , till about four o'clock in the morning , when ...
... followed me , and I never saw the Quaker or England any more . We were no sooner on board than we hoisted sail ; the anchors being up , and the wind fair , we cut the waves at a great rate , till about four o'clock in the morning , when ...
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