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  • I dined to-day with Mr. Secretary St. John; he gave me a letter to read, which was from the publisher of the newspaper called the Postboy; [4] in it there was a long copy of a letter from Dublin, giving an account of what the

    The Journal to Stella Jonathan Swift 1706

  • 'Postboy' is best for the English and Spanish news, the 'Daily

    The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays Joseph Addison 1695

  • I have ordered a paragraph to be put in the Postboy, [12] giving an account of her death, and making honourable mention of her; which is all I can do to serve her memory: but one reason was spite; for her brother would fain have her death a secret, to save the charge of bringing her up here to bury her, or going into mourning.

    The Journal to Stella 2003

  • Prussia (Postboy, Jan. 1, 1712), and he died in December 1714 or

    The Journal to Stella 2003

  • Postboy, has reflected on me in one of his papers; but the

    The Journal to Stella 2003

  • The Postboy said that Boyer would “be prosecuted with the utmost severity of the law” for this attack.

    The Journal to Stella 2003

  • Next month Swift told King that it was reported that the Archbishop had applied this passage in a speech made to his clergy, and explained at some length the steps he had taken to prevent the story being published in the Postboy.

    The Journal to Stella 2003

  • I have been drawing up a paragraph for the Postboy, to be out to-morrow, and as malicious as possible, and very proper for Abel

    The Journal to Stella 2003

  • In the _Postboy_ it is stated that, on the day after his arrival, the Tzar of Muscovy was at Kensington, to see his Majesty at dinner, as also the court; but he was all the while _incognito.

    The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 574, November 3, 1832 Title Various

  • _Postboy_ [415] is generally in files, for greater exactness; and the

    The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899 George A. Aitken

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