The ramblerPafraets Book Company, 1903 - 358 pages |
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... hours , her expenses , and her company ; and learned by degrees to drop an ex- pression of contempt , or pity , at the mention of ladies whose husbands were suspected of restraining their pleasures , or their play , and confessed that ...
... hours , her expenses , and her company ; and learned by degrees to drop an ex- pression of contempt , or pity , at the mention of ladies whose husbands were suspected of restraining their pleasures , or their play , and confessed that ...
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... hours for nobler employments . I am , & c . No. 56. SATURDAY , SEPTEMBER 29 , 1750 Valeat res ludicra , si me Palma negata macrum , donata reducit opimum . HOR . Lib . ii . Ep . i . 180 . Farewell the stage ; for humbly I disclaim Such ...
... hours for nobler employments . I am , & c . No. 56. SATURDAY , SEPTEMBER 29 , 1750 Valeat res ludicra , si me Palma negata macrum , donata reducit opimum . HOR . Lib . ii . Ep . i . 180 . Farewell the stage ; for humbly I disclaim Such ...
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... hours of solitude , and of pleasure ; and that when greatness aspires either to felicity or to wisdom , it shakes off those distinctions which dazzle the gazer , and awe the supplicant . It may be remarked , that they whose condition ...
... hours of solitude , and of pleasure ; and that when greatness aspires either to felicity or to wisdom , it shakes off those distinctions which dazzle the gazer , and awe the supplicant . It may be remarked , that they whose condition ...
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... their only care is to crush the rising hope , to damp the kindling transport , and allay the golden hours of gaiety with the hateful dross of grief and suspicion . To those whose weakness of spirits , or timidity of 26 THE RAMBLER.
... their only care is to crush the rising hope , to damp the kindling transport , and allay the golden hours of gaiety with the hateful dross of grief and suspicion . To those whose weakness of spirits , or timidity of 26 THE RAMBLER.
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... hour of dejection , terrify them with apprehensions , which their own thoughts would never have pro- duced , and sadden , by intruded sorrows , the day which might have been passed in amusements or in business ; it will burthen the ...
... hour of dejection , terrify them with apprehensions , which their own thoughts would never have pro- duced , and sadden , by intruded sorrows , the day which might have been passed in amusements or in business ; it will burthen the ...
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