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... nature to your perusal . You are so thoroughly acquainted with the characters of men , and all the parts of human life , that it is impossible for the least misrepresentation of them to escape your notice . It is your Lordship's ...
... nature to your perusal . You are so thoroughly acquainted with the characters of men , and all the parts of human life , that it is impossible for the least misrepresentation of them to escape your notice . It is your Lordship's ...
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... nature I will not pre- sume to determine : it is sufficient that I shew there is in the Paradise Lost all the greatness of plan , regularity of design , and masterly beauties which we discover in HOMER and VIRGIL . I must in the next ...
... nature I will not pre- sume to determine : it is sufficient that I shew there is in the Paradise Lost all the greatness of plan , regularity of design , and masterly beauties which we discover in HOMER and VIRGIL . I must in the next ...
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... nature could bring him to their purpose , assurance of his being entirely unengaged beforehand , and safe from all their after - expectations , ( the only stratagem left to draw him in ) was given him : -that pursuant to this the ...
... nature could bring him to their purpose , assurance of his being entirely unengaged beforehand , and safe from all their after - expectations , ( the only stratagem left to draw him in ) was given him : -that pursuant to this the ...
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... nature . I was the other day a little out of countenance at a ques- tion of my little daughter HARRIOT , who asked me with a great deal of innocence , why I never told them of the Generals and Admirals that had been in my family ? As ...
... nature . I was the other day a little out of countenance at a ques- tion of my little daughter HARRIOT , who asked me with a great deal of innocence , why I never told them of the Generals and Admirals that had been in my family ? As ...
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... nature glowed with new beauties . They were no sooner arrived at the place where you lay , when they seated themselves on each side of you . On their approach methought I saw a new a new bloom arise in your face , and new 36 NO . 301 ...
... nature glowed with new beauties . They were no sooner arrived at the place where you lay , when they seated themselves on each side of you . On their approach methought I saw a new a new bloom arise in your face , and new 36 NO . 301 ...
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