Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments: Tending to Amuse the Fancy, and Inculcate Morality. By Mr. Addison |
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... discovered in every gesture and every look , is now retired to the breaft , and is found only by those who intend its deftruction ; as a general , when the town is furrendered , retreats to the citadel , which is always lefs capable of ...
... discovered in every gesture and every look , is now retired to the breaft , and is found only by those who intend its deftruction ; as a general , when the town is furrendered , retreats to the citadel , which is always lefs capable of ...
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... discovered , that many ladies by whom she was vifited were of good character and fashion . Her conduct , however , fuppofing her to be a wife , wás ftill inexcufable , and ftill endangered their credit and fubfiftence ; hints were often ...
... discovered , that many ladies by whom she was vifited were of good character and fashion . Her conduct , however , fuppofing her to be a wife , wás ftill inexcufable , and ftill endangered their credit and fubfiftence ; hints were often ...
Page 60
... discovery of thefe , in the opi- nion of the wife Son of Sirac , who well understood the laws and punctualities of friendship , is an offence , of all others , the most provoking and the most unpardonable . For who fo difcovereth fe ...
... discovery of thefe , in the opi- nion of the wife Son of Sirac , who well understood the laws and punctualities of friendship , is an offence , of all others , the most provoking and the most unpardonable . For who fo difcovereth fe ...
Page 139
... but Al- malic , throwing back his garment , discovered the peculiarity of his veft , and put the royal fignet upon his finger . I then started up , and was about ' tq << to proftrate myself before him , but he prevented [ 139 ]
... but Al- malic , throwing back his garment , discovered the peculiarity of his veft , and put the royal fignet upon his finger . I then started up , and was about ' tq << to proftrate myself before him , but he prevented [ 139 ]
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... and I received every ' week a fum from his treasury , which exceeded the most romantic of my expectations . But I foon ' discovered , that no dainty was fo tasteful , as the < food ' food to which labour procured an appetite ; no [ 143 ]
... and I received every ' week a fum from his treasury , which exceeded the most romantic of my expectations . But I foon ' discovered , that no dainty was fo tasteful , as the < food ' food to which labour procured an appetite ; no [ 143 ]
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