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Page 10
... fortune , asked him what reason he had to believe the lady admired him ? Why , says he , my lodgings are opposite to hers , and she is continually at her window either at work , reading , taking snuff , or putting herself in some toying ...
... fortune , asked him what reason he had to believe the lady admired him ? Why , says he , my lodgings are opposite to hers , and she is continually at her window either at work , reading , taking snuff , or putting herself in some toying ...
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... fortune in it ; implex , when the fortune of the chief actor changes from bad to good , or from good to bad . The implex fable is thought the most perfect ; I suppose , because it is more proper to stir up the passions of the reader ...
... fortune in it ; implex , when the fortune of the chief actor changes from bad to good , or from good to bad . The implex fable is thought the most perfect ; I suppose , because it is more proper to stir up the passions of the reader ...
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... fortune with moderation ! The time will come when TURNUS shall wish that he had left the body of PALLAS untouched , and curse the day on which he dressed himself in these spoils . " As the great event of the Eneid , and the death of ...
... fortune with moderation ! The time will come when TURNUS shall wish that he had left the body of PALLAS untouched , and curse the day on which he dressed himself in these spoils . " As the great event of the Eneid , and the death of ...
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... fortune . For these my good services I was knighted in the thirty - fith year of my age , and lived with great dignity among my city neighbours by the name of Sir JOHN ANVIL . Being in my temper very ambitious , I was now bent upon ...
... fortune . For these my good services I was knighted in the thirty - fith year of my age , and lived with great dignity among my city neighbours by the name of Sir JOHN ANVIL . Being in my temper very ambitious , I was now bent upon ...
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... fortune to be honoured with a place in your writings , I shall be the more pleased , because the character of EMILIA is not an imaginary but a real one . I have industriously obscured the whole by the addition of one or two ...
... fortune to be honoured with a place in your writings , I shall be the more pleased , because the character of EMILIA is not an imaginary but a real one . I have industriously obscured the whole by the addition of one or two ...
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