Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments: Tending to Amuse the Fancy, and Inculcate Morality. By Mr. Addison |
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... pleasure , and his familiarities with fo little referve , that he foon ventured to difclofe his intention , and make her what he thought a very genteel propofal of another kind : but whatever were the artifices with which it was ...
... pleasure , and his familiarities with fo little referve , that he foon ventured to difclofe his intention , and make her what he thought a very genteel propofal of another kind : but whatever were the artifices with which it was ...
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... , and some- times rambling with a party of pleasure in short excurfions from the town ; fhe came home fome- times at midnight , and fometimes in the morning ; times [ 17 ] he had now moft reason to be offended, could ...
... , and some- times rambling with a party of pleasure in short excurfions from the town ; fhe came home fome- times at midnight , and fometimes in the morning ; times [ 17 ] he had now moft reason to be offended, could ...
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... pleasure ; and that the per- fon who had hired the lodgings for her as his wife , and had disappeared upon pretence of a voyage to fea , had been employed to impofe upon them , by concealing her character , in order to obtain fuch ...
... pleasure ; and that the per- fon who had hired the lodgings for her as his wife , and had disappeared upon pretence of a voyage to fea , had been employed to impofe upon them , by concealing her character , in order to obtain fuch ...
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... pleasure of a short stay by altercation , chiding , and tears ; but , when her mind was melted into tenderness at his departure , he clasped her in an extacy of fondness to his bofom , and intreated her to behave with re- serve and ...
... pleasure of a short stay by altercation , chiding , and tears ; but , when her mind was melted into tenderness at his departure , he clasped her in an extacy of fondness to his bofom , and intreated her to behave with re- serve and ...
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... pleasures were now become domef- tic , yet the feared left that which had produced should destroy them . After such deliberation , she determined that he would conceal the child's age from its father ; believing it prudent to prevent a ...
... pleasures were now become domef- tic , yet the feared left that which had produced should destroy them . After such deliberation , she determined that he would conceal the child's age from its father ; believing it prudent to prevent a ...
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