The British essayists, with prefaces by A. Chalmers, Volumes 3-4 |
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... agreeable woman ; or if you cannot do this , grow covetous , ambitious , litigious : turn your love of woman into that of profit , prefer- ment , reputation ; and for a time give up yourself entirely to the pursuit . This is a method we ...
... agreeable woman ; or if you cannot do this , grow covetous , ambitious , litigious : turn your love of woman into that of profit , prefer- ment , reputation ; and for a time give up yourself entirely to the pursuit . This is a method we ...
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... agreeable visitant was fired with the example of the lady I told her of , but she immediately vanished out of my sight , it being , it seems , as necessary a point of good - breeding , to go off as if you stole something out of the ...
... agreeable visitant was fired with the example of the lady I told her of , but she immediately vanished out of my sight , it being , it seems , as necessary a point of good - breeding , to go off as if you stole something out of the ...
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... agreeable wildness of imagination , he has wrought a country tradition into a beautiful piece of poetry . In the tragedy of Hamlet , where the ghost vanishes upon the cock's crowing , he takes occasion to mention its crowing all hours ...
... agreeable wildness of imagination , he has wrought a country tradition into a beautiful piece of poetry . In the tragedy of Hamlet , where the ghost vanishes upon the cock's crowing , he takes occasion to mention its crowing all hours ...
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... agreeable epistle inserted in my paper of the third of the last month . It is of the same turn with the other , and may be looked upon as a specimen of right country letters . ' SIR , " THIS sets out to you from my summer - house upon ...
... agreeable epistle inserted in my paper of the third of the last month . It is of the same turn with the other , and may be looked upon as a specimen of right country letters . ' SIR , " THIS sets out to you from my summer - house upon ...
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... agreeable ways of trifling . Tully , when he celebrates the friendship of Scipio and Lælius , who were the greatest as well as the politest men of their age , represents it as a beautiful passage in their retirement , that they used to ...
... agreeable ways of trifling . Tully , when he celebrates the friendship of Scipio and Lælius , who were the greatest as well as the politest men of their age , represents it as a beautiful passage in their retirement , that they used to ...
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