Essays: Biographical, Critical, and Historical; Illustrative of the Tatler, Spectator, and Guardian, Volume 2Suttaby, Evance, and Fox, 1814 - English literature |
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Page 45
... seen the face of God ; and still , while a man tells the story , the sun gets up higher , till he shews a fair face and a full light , and then he shines one whole day , under a cloud often , and sometimes weeping great and little ...
... seen the face of God ; and still , while a man tells the story , the sun gets up higher , till he shews a fair face and a full light , and then he shines one whole day , under a cloud often , and sometimes weeping great and little ...
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... seen a rose newly spring- ing from the clefts of its hood , and at first it was fair as the morning , and full with the dew of heaven , as a lamb's fleece : but when a ruder breath had forced open its virgin modesty , and dismantled its ...
... seen a rose newly spring- ing from the clefts of its hood , and at first it was fair as the morning , and full with the dew of heaven , as a lamb's fleece : but when a ruder breath had forced open its virgin modesty , and dismantled its ...
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... seen in ; and had been , as a man most worthy to be confided in , chosen lord lieu- tenant of one of the most confiding counties , the county of Buckingham ( where he had , with great solemnity and pomp , executed their ordinance , in ...
... seen in ; and had been , as a man most worthy to be confided in , chosen lord lieu- tenant of one of the most confiding counties , the county of Buckingham ( where he had , with great solemnity and pomp , executed their ordinance , in ...
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... seen . Thus the ideas , as well as children of our youth , often die before us : and our minds represent to us those tombs , to which we are approaching ; where , though the Locke's Works , vol . i . p . 129 , Book 2d . Chapter 23d ...
... seen . Thus the ideas , as well as children of our youth , often die before us : and our minds represent to us those tombs , to which we are approaching ; where , though the Locke's Works , vol . i . p . 129 , Book 2d . Chapter 23d ...
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... seen a nutshell in an Iliad . There is no doubt that human life has received most wonder- ful advantages from both ; but to which of the • These are likewise retained in the very valuable edition by Nichols , in nineteen volumes 8vo ...
... seen a nutshell in an Iliad . There is no doubt that human life has received most wonder- ful advantages from both ; but to which of the • These are likewise retained in the very valuable edition by Nichols , in nineteen volumes 8vo ...
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