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... last . the last . This confidence can , perhaps , only be repreffed by a fenfe of danger : and as the persons whom I wish to warn , are moft impatient of declamation , and moft fufceptible of pity , I will addrefs them in a ftory ; and ...
... last . the last . This confidence can , perhaps , only be repreffed by a fenfe of danger : and as the persons whom I wish to warn , are moft impatient of declamation , and moft fufceptible of pity , I will addrefs them in a ftory ; and ...
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... last return " from abroad ; that it was faid to have come before " its time , but that having preffed to fee it , fhe was " refused . " This indeed was true , and confirmed the good woman in her fufpicion ; for Flavilla , who had still ...
... last return " from abroad ; that it was faid to have come before " its time , but that having preffed to fee it , fhe was " refused . " This indeed was true , and confirmed the good woman in her fufpicion ; for Flavilla , who had still ...
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... last figh , and feal " our reconciliation on my lips , while they are yet " fenfible of the impreffion . " Mercator , whom an earthquake would less have affected than this letter , felt all his tenderness revive in a moment , and ...
... last figh , and feal " our reconciliation on my lips , while they are yet " fenfible of the impreffion . " Mercator , whom an earthquake would less have affected than this letter , felt all his tenderness revive in a moment , and ...
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... last , their affection feemed dwindled away to nothing , but a ceremonial complaifance . Nature was foon more predominant than the ties of gentility , or the rules of decency . Their tempers were perpetually bursting the formality of ...
... last , their affection feemed dwindled away to nothing , but a ceremonial complaifance . Nature was foon more predominant than the ties of gentility , or the rules of decency . Their tempers were perpetually bursting the formality of ...
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... last , so habituated to fuch an ignominious custom , as to give an unbounded loose to their paf- fions before company , till they are now become the derifion of all their acquaintance . As I have a re- gard for Lorenzo , I have taken an ...
... last , so habituated to fuch an ignominious custom , as to give an unbounded loose to their paf- fions before company , till they are now become the derifion of all their acquaintance . As I have a re- gard for Lorenzo , I have taken an ...
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addreffed affection affiftance againſt Alcander almoſt ANECDOTE anſwer aſked beauty becauſe buſineſs Caliph cauſe Cephifus circumftances Clarinda Clodio confent confequence confiderable converfation courſe defire diſcovered eſteem eyes faid fame father fatisfaction fays fecret feemed fenfible fervant feveral fhall fhort firft firſt fituation fix franks Flavilla fome fometimes foon fortune friendſhip ftill fubject fuch fuffer fufficient fufpicions fure gentleman greateſt happineſs happy herſelf himſelf honour houſe huſband increaſe itſelf juft juſt lady laft laſt Laura leaſt lefs Lord of Abergavenny loſe meaſure Mencius Mercator mind moft moſt muft muſt myſelf neceffary never obferved occafion ourſelves paffed paffion perfon pleaſed pleaſure poffeffed prefent promiſed puniſhment purpoſe raiſed reaſon reflection requeſt ſaid ſee ſeem ſhall ſhe ſhould ſmall ſome ſpirit ſtate ſtill ſuch thee themſelves theſe thofe thoſe thou thought thouſand tion uſe vifit Vincent virtue whofe whoſe wife wiſhes