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... delighted his imagination offends his judgment , and that he has lost the day by indulging a pleasing dream , in which he joined together a multitude of splendid images without perceiving their incongruity . Thus the wit is condemned to ...
... delighted his imagination offends his judgment , and that he has lost the day by indulging a pleasing dream , in which he joined together a multitude of splendid images without perceiving their incongruity . Thus the wit is condemned to ...
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... delight or astonishment of the present age : I have not only ransacked the fairs of Bartholomew and Southwark , but picked up every uncommon animal , every amazing prodigy of nature , and every sur- prising performer , that has lately ...
... delight or astonishment of the present age : I have not only ransacked the fairs of Bartholomew and Southwark , but picked up every uncommon animal , every amazing prodigy of nature , and every sur- prising performer , that has lately ...
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... , with the assistance of two artificial noddles fastened to his throat . The sagacity of this animal will surely delight much more than the pretty trick of his rival , the human hound , in another 14 3 . ADVENTURER .
... , with the assistance of two artificial noddles fastened to his throat . The sagacity of this animal will surely delight much more than the pretty trick of his rival , the human hound , in another 14 3 . ADVENTURER .
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... delight . But it is not , perhaps , the mere violation of truth or of pro- bability that offends , but such a violation only as perpetually recurs . The mind is satisfied if every event appears to have an adequate cause ; and when the ...
... delight . But it is not , perhaps , the mere violation of truth or of pro- bability that offends , but such a violation only as perpetually recurs . The mind is satisfied if every event appears to have an adequate cause ; and when the ...
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... delight , and as he had been taught , immediately impaled me alive upon a corking pin , to which a piece of thread was fastened , and I was doomed to make my young master sport , by fluttering about in the agonies of death ; and when I ...
... delight , and as he had been taught , immediately impaled me alive upon a corking pin , to which a piece of thread was fastened , and I was doomed to make my young master sport , by fluttering about in the agonies of death ; and when I ...
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