The British essayists, with prefaces by A. Chalmers, Volumes 3-4 |
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... creature , and have almost lost even my English , at least to speak such as any body else does . I asked a tenant of ours , who came up to town the other day with rent , whether the flowery meads near my father's house in the country ...
... creature , and have almost lost even my English , at least to speak such as any body else does . I asked a tenant of ours , who came up to town the other day with rent , whether the flowery meads near my father's house in the country ...
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... creature ; at the same time that she did not inflict this upon one who was her enemy , one that had done her an in- jury , one that had wished her ill ; but on the man who loved her more than any else loved her , and more than it was ...
... creature ; at the same time that she did not inflict this upon one who was her enemy , one that had done her an in- jury , one that had wished her ill ; but on the man who loved her more than any else loved her , and more than it was ...
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... creature . The admiration , the applause , the satisfaction , of the audience , during this strange entertainment , is not to be expressed . I was very much out of countenance for my dear countrymen , and looked about with some ...
... creature . The admiration , the applause , the satisfaction , of the audience , during this strange entertainment , is not to be expressed . I was very much out of countenance for my dear countrymen , and looked about with some ...
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... creature , I die for you . ' It was observable that he took snuff all the time his accusation was reading . I asked him , ' how he came to use these words , if he were not a dead man ? ' He told me , ' he was in love with the lady , and ...
... creature , I die for you . ' It was observable that he took snuff all the time his accusation was reading . I asked him , ' how he came to use these words , if he were not a dead man ? ' He told me , ' he was in love with the lady , and ...
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... creatures the most helpless and forlorn ; he feels the whole pres- sure of a present calamity , without being relieved by the memory of any thing that is past , or the prospect of any thing that is to come . Annihilation is the greatest ...
... creatures the most helpless and forlorn ; he feels the whole pres- sure of a present calamity , without being relieved by the memory of any thing that is past , or the prospect of any thing that is to come . Annihilation is the greatest ...
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acquaintance admired Æneid agreeable APARTMENT appear beauty behaviour Bickerstaff called cerned character Cicero COFFEE-HOUSE confess consider conversation creatures death delight desire Dido discourse dress endeavour entertain Erasistratus Eriphyle ESQUIRE esteem eyes fancy father favour FEBRUARY 22 fortune gentleman give Great-Britain greatest happy hath heart honour hope humble humour husband imagination impertinent innocent ISAAC BICKERSTAFF kind lady learned letter live look lover mankind manner marriage ment mind nature neral never night observe occasion OVID Palamede particular pass passion persons petitioner play pleased pleasure poet present pretend proper racter reason received Roman Censors Rome says sense SHEER-LANE soul speak spirit Stratonice Tatler tell temper Terentia thing thou thought THURSDAY Timoleon tion told town TUESDAY tural turn upholsterer VIRG Virgil virtue whole wife woman words write young