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Page 32
... pleased to acquaint us how we must behave ourselves towards this valetudinary friendship , subject to so many heats and colds , and you will oblige , SIR , Your humble servant , ' MIRANDA . SIR , I CANNOT forbear acknowledging the ...
... pleased to acquaint us how we must behave ourselves towards this valetudinary friendship , subject to so many heats and colds , and you will oblige , SIR , Your humble servant , ' MIRANDA . SIR , I CANNOT forbear acknowledging the ...
Page 34
... pleased with any little accomplishments , either of body or mind , which have once made us remarkable in the world , that we endeavour to persuade ourselves it is not in the power of time to rob us of them . We are eternally pursuing ...
... pleased with any little accomplishments , either of body or mind , which have once made us remarkable in the world , that we endeavour to persuade ourselves it is not in the power of time to rob us of them . We are eternally pursuing ...
Page 35
... pleased her , as they gave her opportunities of playing the tyrant . She then contracted that awful cast of the eye and forbidding frown , which she has not yet laid aside , and has still all the insolence of beauty without its charms ...
... pleased her , as they gave her opportunities of playing the tyrant . She then contracted that awful cast of the eye and forbidding frown , which she has not yet laid aside , and has still all the insolence of beauty without its charms ...
Page 38
... 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 circumstances of no consequence , that the person it is drawn from might still be ...
... 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 circumstances of no consequence , that the person it is drawn from might still be ...
Page 42
... pleased with that , which otherwise he would not have bore to hear of , she then knew how to press and secure this advantage , by approving it as his thought , and seconding it as his proposal . By this means she has gained an interest ...
... pleased with that , which otherwise he would not have bore to hear of , she then knew how to press and secure this advantage , by approving it as his thought , and seconding it as his proposal . By this means she has gained an interest ...
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