The British Essayists: ConnoisseurNichols and Son, 1817 |
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... Plutus and Cupid were busily em- ployed in distributing these cakes , ( which were all of them marked with the word Matrimony , and called bride - cakes ) to different persons , who were allowed to choose for themselves , according to ...
... Plutus and Cupid were busily em- ployed in distributing these cakes , ( which were all of them marked with the word Matrimony , and called bride - cakes ) to different persons , who were allowed to choose for themselves , according to ...
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... Plutus than to Cupid . Being desirous to take a nearer view of the com- pany , I pushed through the crowd , and placed myself close by the altar . A young couple now advanced , and applying to Cupid , desired him to reach them one of ...
... Plutus than to Cupid . Being desirous to take a nearer view of the com- pany , I pushed through the crowd , and placed myself close by the altar . A young couple now advanced , and applying to Cupid , desired him to reach them one of ...
Strona 9
... Plutus one much more glittering , mark- ed indifference and a large settlement . Another lady was coming up with a Knight of the Bath , being tempted by a cake with a red riband streaming from it , like the flags on a twelfth - cake ...
... Plutus one much more glittering , mark- ed indifference and a large settlement . Another lady was coming up with a Knight of the Bath , being tempted by a cake with a red riband streaming from it , like the flags on a twelfth - cake ...
Strona 10
... Plutus ; but being enraged to find , that they had now given over all thoughts of her , she seized by the hand a young ensign of the guards , and carried him to the altar , whence she herself snatched up a cake , and divided it with her ...
... Plutus ; but being enraged to find , that they had now given over all thoughts of her , she seized by the hand a young ensign of the guards , and carried him to the altar , whence she herself snatched up a cake , and divided it with her ...
Strona 11
... Plutus refused to favour her with a cake . Fu- rious with rage and despair , she snatched one off the altar ; and seizing on the first man that came in her way , which unfortunately happened to be myself , she would have forcibly ...
... Plutus refused to favour her with a cake . Fu- rious with rage and despair , she snatched one off the altar ; and seizing on the first man that came in her way , which unfortunately happened to be myself , she would have forcibly ...
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