Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments: Tending to Amuse the Fancy, and Inculcate Morality. By Mr. Addison |
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... beauty ; but an air of diffolute boldness is now affected by all who would be thought graceful or polite . Chaftity , which used to be discovered in every gesture and every look , is now retired to the breaft , and is found only by ...
... beauty ; but an air of diffolute boldness is now affected by all who would be thought graceful or polite . Chaftity , which used to be discovered in every gesture and every look , is now retired to the breaft , and is found only by ...
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... Flavilla had no dread . She was remarkably tall for her age , and was celebrated not only for her beauty , but her wit : these qualifications she confi- dered , dered , not only as fecuring whatever the enjoyed by [ 8 ]
... Flavilla had no dread . She was remarkably tall for her age , and was celebrated not only for her beauty , but her wit : these qualifications she confi- dered , dered , not only as fecuring whatever the enjoyed by [ 8 ]
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... beauty , but difcouraged by the fplendour of her appearance , and the rank of her company . He was urged , ra- ther by curiofity than hope , to inquire who she was ; and he foon gained fuch a knowledge of her cir- cumstances as relieved ...
... beauty , but difcouraged by the fplendour of her appearance , and the rank of her company . He was urged , ra- ther by curiofity than hope , to inquire who she was ; and he foon gained fuch a knowledge of her cir- cumstances as relieved ...
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... had been a gay man , and was well acquainted with the town . He had often heard Flavilla toafted by rakes of quality , and had often feen her at publick places . Her beauty and her her dependence , the gaiety of her drefs , the [ 15 ]
... had been a gay man , and was well acquainted with the town . He had often heard Flavilla toafted by rakes of quality , and had often feen her at publick places . Her beauty and her her dependence , the gaiety of her drefs , the [ 15 ]
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... beauty , there have I been the most disappointed . Instead of beholding a paradife , I have found nothing but a garden of noxious weeds ; which occafions me to publish the following obfervations . For thefe may be of utility to fociety ...
... beauty , there have I been the most disappointed . Instead of beholding a paradife , I have found nothing but a garden of noxious weeds ; which occafions me to publish the following obfervations . For thefe may be of utility to fociety ...
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