The Spectator, Volume 4W. Wilson, 1778 |
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... hand , and fay , " I do , " with a languishing air , to the man fhe is obliged by cruel parents to take " for mercenary reafons , but at the fame time she can- not look as if she loved ; her eye is full of forrow , and • reluctance fits ...
... hand , and fay , " I do , " with a languishing air , to the man fhe is obliged by cruel parents to take " for mercenary reafons , but at the fame time she can- not look as if she loved ; her eye is full of forrow , and • reluctance fits ...
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... hand ; and as the world is more apt to find fault than to commend , the boaft will probably be cenfured when the great action that occafioned it is forgotten . Befides , this very defire of fame is looked on as a meannefs and ...
... hand ; and as the world is more apt to find fault than to commend , the boaft will probably be cenfured when the great action that occafioned it is forgotten . Befides , this very defire of fame is looked on as a meannefs and ...
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... the widow , the fatherlefs , the mourner , and the ftranger blefs his unfeen hand in their prayers . This humorit gives uo all the compliments which people of his own condition could make him , for 56 N ° 264 . THE SPECTATOR .
... the widow , the fatherlefs , the mourner , and the ftranger blefs his unfeen hand in their prayers . This humorit gives uo all the compliments which people of his own condition could make him , for 56 N ° 264 . THE SPECTATOR .
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... hand her out of the box with fafety .. WILL informs me likewife , that thefe hoods may be ufed as fignals . Why elfe , fays he , does Cornelia always put on a black hood when her husband is gone into the country ? Such are my friend ...
... hand her out of the box with fafety .. WILL informs me likewife , that thefe hoods may be ufed as fignals . Why elfe , fays he , does Cornelia always put on a black hood when her husband is gone into the country ? Such are my friend ...
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... hand coming out of James - ftreet , by a young flim girl of about feventeen , who with a pert air asked me if I was ... hands , was left in the firft month from her difhonour , and expofed to país through the hands and difcipline of one ...
... hand coming out of James - ftreet , by a young flim girl of about feventeen , who with a pert air asked me if I was ... hands , was left in the firft month from her difhonour , and expofed to país through the hands and difcipline of one ...
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