Letters of Anna Seward: Written Between the Years 1784 and 1807, Volume 1 |
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... amiable individuals , who ge- nerously waved , in tribute to thy merit , those ob- jections to plebeian birth which prevail in France with a force so generally exclusive ; and who , by thus receiving thee into their society , enlarged ...
... amiable individuals , who ge- nerously waved , in tribute to thy merit , those ob- jections to plebeian birth which prevail in France with a force so generally exclusive ; and who , by thus receiving thee into their society , enlarged ...
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... amiable and ac- complished Savoyard , its varied scenes ; my best consolation is , that you are together , and have the power of devoting a portion of every day to the remembrance of him whom you have lost . In- different people must ...
... amiable and ac- complished Savoyard , its varied scenes ; my best consolation is , that you are together , and have the power of devoting a portion of every day to the remembrance of him whom you have lost . In- different people must ...
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... amiable Mrs Scott is removed so far from you . She must often wish to embrace the love- ly daughter of a lost friend ; -a friend so dear and so revered ! The style of Lady Marianne's letter convinces me that she has a mind whose tastes ...
... amiable Mrs Scott is removed so far from you . She must often wish to embrace the love- ly daughter of a lost friend ; -a friend so dear and so revered ! The style of Lady Marianne's letter convinces me that she has a mind whose tastes ...
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... death , proved that his religion was not of that amiable species , which smooths the pillow of the dying man , and sheds upon it the light of religious hope . If the misleading force of his eloquence had not blighted 36 LETTER IX .
... death , proved that his religion was not of that amiable species , which smooths the pillow of the dying man , and sheds upon it the light of religious hope . If the misleading force of his eloquence had not blighted 36 LETTER IX .
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... amiable , and some of them yet great- er in point of genius , to his manes ! Our Cecilian concert was not so full as I have seen it . It was a bad evening , moonless , sleety , and of the most dreary coldness ; but Mr Saville and his ...
... amiable , and some of them yet great- er in point of genius , to his manes ! Our Cecilian concert was not so full as I have seen it . It was a bad evening , moonless , sleety , and of the most dreary coldness ; but Mr Saville and his ...
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