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Page 11
... turn my age , as , indeed , I am an old maid , into raillery , for affecting a youthier turn than is consistent with my time of day ; and , therefore , he makes the title of his madigral , the character of Mrs. JUDITH LOVEBANE , born in ...
... turn my age , as , indeed , I am an old maid , into raillery , for affecting a youthier turn than is consistent with my time of day ; and , therefore , he makes the title of his madigral , the character of Mrs. JUDITH LOVEBANE , born in ...
Page 16
... turns upon this incident , VIRGIL went out of his way to make this reflection upon it , without which so small a circumstance might possibly have slipt out of his reader's memory . LUCAN who was an injudicious poet , lets drop his story ...
... turns upon this incident , VIRGIL went out of his way to make this reflection upon it , without which so small a circumstance might possibly have slipt out of his reader's memory . LUCAN who was an injudicious poet , lets drop his story ...
Page 41
... turn ; her thoughts are wholly bent upon conquest and arbitrary power . That she has some wit and beauty nobody denies , and , therefore , has the esteem of all her acquaintance as a woman of an agreeable person and conversation ; but ...
... turn ; her thoughts are wholly bent upon conquest and arbitrary power . That she has some wit and beauty nobody denies , and , therefore , has the esteem of all her acquaintance as a woman of an agreeable person and conversation ; but ...
Page 46
... turns in a great measure upon the creation of the world , is very properly made to the Muse who inspired MOSES in those books from whence our author drew his subject , and to the holy spirit who is therein represented as operating after ...
... turns in a great measure upon the creation of the world , is very properly made to the Muse who inspired MOSES in those books from whence our author drew his subject , and to the holy spirit who is therein represented as operating after ...
Page 48
... turn of poetry , which rises in a great measure from its describing the places where they were worshipped , by those beautiful marks of rivers SO so frequent among the ancient poets . The author had 48 NO . 303 . THE SPECTATOR .
... turn of poetry , which rises in a great measure from its describing the places where they were worshipped , by those beautiful marks of rivers SO so frequent among the ancient poets . The author had 48 NO . 303 . THE SPECTATOR .
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