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... rapidity from breast to breast ; interest , on the contrary , is a cold and soli- tary feeling , which shrinks from the eye of public observation , and which every individual carefully conceals within himself ELOQUENCE . 3.
... rapidity from breast to breast ; interest , on the contrary , is a cold and soli- tary feeling , which shrinks from the eye of public observation , and which every individual carefully conceals within himself ELOQUENCE . 3.
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... eyes in the business ; and that , when you did make a show of hunting him out , he was always beforehand , and gone . Surely , my lord , this juggling little became an honest man called to such honour , or a nobleman adorned with so ...
... eyes in the business ; and that , when you did make a show of hunting him out , he was always beforehand , and gone . Surely , my lord , this juggling little became an honest man called to such honour , or a nobleman adorned with so ...
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... eye of man ; and there are very few who can bear to grow old among the curses of a whole people . If their passion or their avarice drove the Tartar lords to acts of rapacity or tyranny , there was time enough , even in the short life ...
... eye of man ; and there are very few who can bear to grow old among the curses of a whole people . If their passion or their avarice drove the Tartar lords to acts of rapacity or tyranny , there was time enough , even in the short life ...
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... eyes of the natives but an endless , hopeless prospect of new flights of birds of prey and passage , with appetites continually renewing for a food that is continually wasting . Every rupee of profit made by an Englishman is lost for ...
... eyes of the natives but an endless , hopeless prospect of new flights of birds of prey and passage , with appetites continually renewing for a food that is continually wasting . Every rupee of profit made by an Englishman is lost for ...
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... eye had seen , no heart conceived , and which no tongue can adequately tell . All the horrors of war , before known or heard of , were mercy to that new havock . A storm of universal fire blasted every field , consumed every house ...
... eye had seen , no heart conceived , and which no tongue can adequately tell . All the horrors of war , before known or heard of , were mercy to that new havock . A storm of universal fire blasted every field , consumed every house ...
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ancient appear Bachelor beauty Benedict breath caboceer called cataract Catiline CHAP character church Demonax Devil Don Quixote Dr Johnson dreadful Duke of Burgundy earth EDWARD DANIEL CLARKE effect English equal eyes fall FAUST feel fire friends genius Gil Blas give gold Greek hand hath hear heard heart heaven holy honour human Hyder Ali imagination Ioannina Jaffa king less live look Lord magnificent manner MARGARET ment Mephistopheles merits mind morning nature never night o'er object observed Odoacer opinion ornaments palaces passages peculiar perhaps persons pleasure poet poetical poetry possess principles racter replied the Nymph respect Roman round scarcely scene sentiments Shirley Sibylline books side song Sotheby's soul spirit steam stood style sweet taste thee thing thou thought tion Tom Jones truth Warburton whole