The Bachelor's Wife: A Selection of Curious and Interesting Extracts, with Cursory Observations |
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Page 57
... kind and sure a friend as I. Laf . Who cannot friend himself , is foe to any , And to be fear'd of all , and that is it Makes me so scorn'd : but make me what you can , Never so wicked and so full of fiends , I never yet was traitor to ...
... kind and sure a friend as I. Laf . Who cannot friend himself , is foe to any , And to be fear'd of all , and that is it Makes me so scorn'd : but make me what you can , Never so wicked and so full of fiends , I never yet was traitor to ...
Page 83
... kind of pleasure . In this respect , however , as well as in point of literary progress , the difference , on trial , would be found much less considerable than might at first be imagined . We never take up a book with so keen an ...
... kind of pleasure . In this respect , however , as well as in point of literary progress , the difference , on trial , would be found much less considerable than might at first be imagined . We never take up a book with so keen an ...
Page 85
... kind will occasionally enter even the best - regulated minds , however carefully they may be repressed and discouraged ; but in tempers of a bold and unprincipled cast , they will be explicitly stat- ed and avowedly acted upon ...
... kind will occasionally enter even the best - regulated minds , however carefully they may be repressed and discouraged ; but in tempers of a bold and unprincipled cast , they will be explicitly stat- ed and avowedly acted upon ...
Page 89
... kind , they will be overpowered and ren- dered imperceptible , and the result will be a balance of pure pleasure , which is the efficient cause of attach- ment . The consequence is , that these defects no longer excite the disagreeable ...
... kind , they will be overpowered and ren- dered imperceptible , and the result will be a balance of pure pleasure , which is the efficient cause of attach- ment . The consequence is , that these defects no longer excite the disagreeable ...
Page 90
... kind is very little wanted by the description of persons under consideration , and that ob- servations like the foregoing will be rather detrimental than useful , by increasing that absurd personal vanity for which they are already so ...
... kind is very little wanted by the description of persons under consideration , and that ob- servations like the foregoing will be rather detrimental than useful , by increasing that absurd personal vanity for which they are already so ...
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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