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Page 157
... expected to heighten the pleasure of the feast . He informed me what prejudices my reputation had raised in my favour , and represented the satisfaction with which he should see me kindle up the blaze of merriment , and should remark ...
... expected to heighten the pleasure of the feast . He informed me what prejudices my reputation had raised in my favour , and represented the satisfaction with which he should see me kindle up the blaze of merriment , and should remark ...
Page 193
... expected that we should be so frugal as to let none of them slip from us without some equivalent ; and , perhaps , it might be found , that as the earth , however straitened by rocks and waters , is capable of producing more than all ...
... expected that we should be so frugal as to let none of them slip from us without some equivalent ; and , perhaps , it might be found , that as the earth , however straitened by rocks and waters , is capable of producing more than all ...
Page 302
... expected that he should meet in every place with patronage or friendship , will soon remit his vigour , when he finds that , from those who de- sire to be considered as his admirers , nothing can be hoped but cold civility , and that ...
... expected that he should meet in every place with patronage or friendship , will soon remit his vigour , when he finds that , from those who de- sire to be considered as his admirers , nothing can be hoped but cold civility , and that ...
Contents
Peevishness equally wretched and offensivethe Character of Tetrica | 74 |
The World never known but by a Change of Fortune the History of Melissa | 75 |
The Arts by which bad Men are reconciled to them selves | 76 |
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