Essays: Biographical, Critical, and Historical; Illustrative of the Tatler, Spectator, and Guardian, Volume 2Suttaby, Evance, and Fox, 1814 - English literature |
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... green liveries , as though they were children of summer , with staves in their hands , to beat the guiltless : earth , when the hounds were at a fault , and with horns about their necks , to sound an alarum upon ..OF ENGLISH STYLE , & C .
... green liveries , as though they were children of summer , with staves in their hands , to beat the guiltless : earth , when the hounds were at a fault , and with horns about their necks , to sound an alarum upon ..OF ENGLISH STYLE , & C .
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... hands , who alone hath power over all flesh , and unto whose appointment we ought with patience meekly to submit our- selves ( for to be agents voluntarily in our own destruction , is against both God and nature ; ) yet there is no ...
... hands , who alone hath power over all flesh , and unto whose appointment we ought with patience meekly to submit our- selves ( for to be agents voluntarily in our own destruction , is against both God and nature ; ) yet there is no ...
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... hand of its concretive spirit , the seeds of petrifaction and gorgon of itself . As sensible phylosophers conceive of the generation of diamonds , iris , berils . Not making them of frozen icicle , or from meer aqueous and glaciable ...
... hand of its concretive spirit , the seeds of petrifaction and gorgon of itself . As sensible phylosophers conceive of the generation of diamonds , iris , berils . Not making them of frozen icicle , or from meer aqueous and glaciable ...
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... hand ) or were I ready to my wishes , it were a folly to commit any thing elaborately composed to the careless and interrupted listening of these tumultuous times . Next , if I were wise only to my own ends , I would certainly take such ...
... hand ) or were I ready to my wishes , it were a folly to commit any thing elaborately composed to the careless and interrupted listening of these tumultuous times . Next , if I were wise only to my own ends , I would certainly take such ...
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... hand ; but that I trust hereby to make it manifest with what small willingness I endure to interrupt the pursuit of no less hopes than these , and leave a calm and pleasing solitariness , fed with chearful and confident thoughts , to ...
... hand ; but that I trust hereby to make it manifest with what small willingness I endure to interrupt the pursuit of no less hopes than these , and leave a calm and pleasing solitariness , fed with chearful and confident thoughts , to ...
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