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... words , pray , Sir , sit down ; which I desire you to insert , and you will particularly oblige Your daily reader , CHARTIY FROST ? SIR , I AM a great lover of dancing , but cannot perform so well as some others ; however , by my out ...
... words , pray , Sir , sit down ; which I desire you to insert , and you will particularly oblige Your daily reader , CHARTIY FROST ? SIR , I AM a great lover of dancing , but cannot perform so well as some others ; however , by my out ...
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... words , transpositions , and foreign idioms . SENECA's objection to the stile of a great author , Riget ejus oratio , nibil in eâ placidum , nibil lene , is what many critics make to MILTON . As I can- not wholly refute it , so I have ...
... words , transpositions , and foreign idioms . SENECA's objection to the stile of a great author , Riget ejus oratio , nibil in eâ placidum , nibil lene , is what many critics make to MILTON . As I can- not wholly refute it , so I have ...
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... word , that as he never did make any previous offer of his service , or the least step to her af- fection ; so on his discovery of these designs thus laid to trick him , he could not but afterwards , in justice to himself , vindicate ...
... word , that as he never did make any previous offer of his service , or the least step to her af- fection ; so on his discovery of these designs thus laid to trick him , he could not but afterwards , in justice to himself , vindicate ...
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... word , which fills the town with elderly fops , and superannuated coquettes . * CANIDIA , a lady of this latter species , passed by me yesterday Lord OGLEBY , in the Clandestine Marriage , is an ad- mirable picture of an old beau ...
... word , which fills the town with elderly fops , and superannuated coquettes . * CANIDIA , a lady of this latter species , passed by me yesterday Lord OGLEBY , in the Clandestine Marriage , is an ad- mirable picture of an old beau ...
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... word and action : a man must be a savage , who , at the sight of EMILIA , is not more inclined to do her good , than gratify himself . Her person , as it is thus studiously embellished by nature , thus adorned with un- premeditated ...
... word and action : a man must be a savage , who , at the sight of EMILIA , is not more inclined to do her good , than gratify himself . Her person , as it is thus studiously embellished by nature , thus adorned with un- premeditated ...
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