Essays: Biographical, Critical, and Historical; Illustrative of the Tatler, Spectator, and Guardian, Volume 2Suttaby, Evance, and Fox, 1814 - English literature |
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... delight , as the fairness of Parthenia , the pearl of all the maids of Mantinea : who as shee went to the temple ... delights , that the sun , how great a 6 ON THE PROGRESS AND MERITS.
... delight , as the fairness of Parthenia , the pearl of all the maids of Mantinea : who as shee went to the temple ... delights , that the sun , how great a 6 ON THE PROGRESS AND MERITS.
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... delights , that the sun , how great a journey soever hee had to make , could never prevent him with earliness , nor the moon , with her sober countenance , dissuade him from watching till midnight for the deer's feeding ! O , said hee ...
... delights , that the sun , how great a journey soever hee had to make , could never prevent him with earliness , nor the moon , with her sober countenance , dissuade him from watching till midnight for the deer's feeding ! O , said hee ...
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... delight and varietie of opinion drew the horsemen sundry waies , yet cheering their hounds with voice and horn , kept still ( as it were ) together . The wood seemed to conspire with them against his own citizens , dispersing their nois ...
... delight and varietie of opinion drew the horsemen sundry waies , yet cheering their hounds with voice and horn , kept still ( as it were ) together . The wood seemed to conspire with them against his own citizens , dispersing their nois ...
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... delight , for ornament , and for ability . Their chiefe use for delight , is in privatenesse and retiring ; for ornament , is in dis- course ; and for ability , is in the judgment and disposition of businesse . For expert men can ...
... delight , for ornament , and for ability . Their chiefe use for delight , is in privatenesse and retiring ; for ornament , is in dis- course ; and for ability , is in the judgment and disposition of businesse . For expert men can ...
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... delight his countrymen tooke in fishing , and in making of pooles . James Dubra- vius that Moravian , in his booke de pisc . telleth , how travelling by the highway side in Silecia , he found a nobleman booted up to the groins , wading ...
... delight his countrymen tooke in fishing , and in making of pooles . James Dubra- vius that Moravian , in his booke de pisc . telleth , how travelling by the highway side in Silecia , he found a nobleman booted up to the groins , wading ...
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