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Page 17
... beauty in these very digressions , that I could not wish them out of his poem . I have , in a former paper , spoken of the Characters of MILTON's Paradise Lost , and declared my opinion , as to the allegorical persons who are introduced ...
... beauty in these very digressions , that I could not wish them out of his poem . I have , in a former paper , spoken of the Characters of MILTON's Paradise Lost , and declared my opinion , as to the allegorical persons who are introduced ...
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... beauty , without having recourse to these foreign assistances . Our language sunk under him , and was unequal to that greatness of soul , which furnished him with such glorious conceptions . A second fault in his Language is , that he ...
... beauty , without having recourse to these foreign assistances . Our language sunk under him , and was unequal to that greatness of soul , which furnished him with such glorious conceptions . A second fault in his Language is , that he ...
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... old beau wishing to have the appearance of youth , Performed by our great comic actor , KING , that character is exquisitely pleasing . yesterday in her coach . CANIDIA was an haughty beauty 34 NO . 301 . THE SPECTATOR .
... old beau wishing to have the appearance of youth , Performed by our great comic actor , KING , that character is exquisitely pleasing . yesterday in her coach . CANIDIA was an haughty beauty 34 NO . 301 . THE SPECTATOR .
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... beauty without its charms . If she now attracts the eyes of any beholders , it is only by being remarkably ridiculous ; even her own sex laugh at her affectation ; and the men , who always enjoy an ill - natured pleasure in seeing an ...
... beauty without its charms . If she now attracts the eyes of any beholders , it is only by being remarkably ridiculous ; even her own sex laugh at her affectation ; and the men , who always enjoy an ill - natured pleasure in seeing an ...
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... Beauty ; the latter is the peculiar portion of that sex which is therefore called fair ; but the happy concurrence of both these excellencies in the same person , is a character too celestial to be frequently met with . Beauty is an ...
... Beauty ; the latter is the peculiar portion of that sex which is therefore called fair ; but the happy concurrence of both these excellencies in the same person , is a character too celestial to be frequently met with . Beauty is an ...
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