The Spectator ..Peter Wilson, 1755 |
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... thing in any woman's perfon or character that could balance the disadvantage of an unequal fortune . In the mean time ' the fon continued his application to me , and omitted no occafion of demonftrating the most disinterested paffion ...
... thing in any woman's perfon or character that could balance the disadvantage of an unequal fortune . In the mean time ' the fon continued his application to me , and omitted no occafion of demonftrating the most disinterested paffion ...
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... things without any sense of time and place . The poor ignorant people where I lay conceal'd • and now passed for a widow , wondered I could be • so shy and strange , as they called it , to the squire ; and were bribed by him to admit ...
... things without any sense of time and place . The poor ignorant people where I lay conceal'd • and now passed for a widow , wondered I could be • so shy and strange , as they called it , to the squire ; and were bribed by him to admit ...
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... thing that has yet appeared to the world ; for they say the child is to bear a refem- • blance of what was defir'd by the mother . I have • been married upwards of fix years , have had four ⚫ children , and my wife is now big with the ...
... thing that has yet appeared to the world ; for they say the child is to bear a refem- • blance of what was defir'd by the mother . I have • been married upwards of fix years , have had four ⚫ children , and my wife is now big with the ...
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... things : In vain , If none regard . Heav'n wakes with all his eyes , Whom to behold but thee , nature's defire , In whose fight all things joy , with ravishment Attracted by thy beauty still to gaze ! 2 An injudicious poet would have ...
... things : In vain , If none regard . Heav'n wakes with all his eyes , Whom to behold but thee , nature's defire , In whose fight all things joy , with ravishment Attracted by thy beauty still to gaze ! 2 An injudicious poet would have ...
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... thing , that is censured in Homer , by something parallel in Holy Writ , would have been very well pleased had they thought of confronting Vulcan's Tripodes with Ezekiel's wheels . Raphael's descent to the earth , with the figure of his ...
... thing , that is censured in Homer , by something parallel in Holy Writ , would have been very well pleased had they thought of confronting Vulcan's Tripodes with Ezekiel's wheels . Raphael's descent to the earth , with the figure of his ...
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Adam Æneid agreeable alſo angels anſwer appear beautiful becauſe behaviour beſt buſineſs cauſe character chearfulness confider confideration converſation defire deſcribed deſcription deſign diſcourſe endeavour eſteem eyes faid fame fays feveral fince firſt parents fome foon fublime fuch gentleman give heav'n Homer honour houſe humble fervant imagination inſtances itſelf juſt lady laſt leſs live look mankind manner maſter Menippus Milton mind miſtreſs Mohocks moſt myſelf nature neſs never night obſerve occafion Ovid paffion particular paſſage paſſed paſſion perſon pleaſed pleaſure poem poet preſent raiſe reader reaſon repreſented reſpect riſe ſame ſays ſcene ſchool ſecond ſeems ſenſe ſentiments ſet ſeveral ſhall ſhe ſhew ſhort ſhould Sir ROGER ſome ſpeak SPECTATOR ſpeculation ſpeech ſpirit ſtage ſtate ſtill ſtory ſubject ſuch ſurpriſe tell thee theſe thing thoſe thou thought tion uſe verſe Virg virtue whole whoſe