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Page 25
... short the marriage - treaty , I threw her a charte blanche , as our news - papers call it , desiring her to write upon it her own terms . She was very concise in her demands , insisting only that the disposal of my fortune , and the ...
... short the marriage - treaty , I threw her a charte blanche , as our news - papers call it , desiring her to write upon it her own terms . She was very concise in her demands , insisting only that the disposal of my fortune , and the ...
Page 28
... short , Mr. SPECTATOR , I am so much out of my natural element , that to recover my old way of life , I would be content to begin the world again , and be plain JACK ANVIL : but alas ! I am in for life , and am bound to subscribe myself ...
... short , Mr. SPECTATOR , I am so much out of my natural element , that to recover my old way of life , I would be content to begin the world again , and be plain JACK ANVIL : but alas ! I am in for life , and am bound to subscribe myself ...
Page 30
... short for hatred as well as for love , yet the many hours which they naturally spend together apart from all observers , furnish people , of tolerable moderation , with such ample opportunities for the enjoyment of either passion , that ...
... short for hatred as well as for love , yet the many hours which they naturally spend together apart from all observers , furnish people , of tolerable moderation , with such ample opportunities for the enjoyment of either passion , that ...
Page 37
... short time , YOUTH ( displaying a pair of wings , which I had not before taken notice of ) flew off . LOVE still remained , and holding the torch which he had in his hand before your face , you still appeared as beautiful as ever . The ...
... short time , YOUTH ( displaying a pair of wings , which I had not before taken notice of ) flew off . LOVE still remained , and holding the torch which he had in his hand before your face , you still appeared as beautiful as ever . The ...
Page 46
... short , his first speech is a complication of all those passions which discover themselves separately in several other of his speeches in the Poem . The whole part of this great enemy of mankind is filled with such incidents as are very ...
... short , his first speech is a complication of all those passions which discover themselves separately in several other of his speeches in the Poem . The whole part of this great enemy of mankind is filled with such incidents as are very ...
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