The British Essayists: TatlerJames Ferguson J. Richardson and Company, 1823 - English essays |
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... heart of a woman ; with this particular merit , which often is of great ser- vice , that he is laughed at for her sake . The friends of the fair - one are in much pain for the sufferings she goes through from the perseverance of this ...
... heart of a woman ; with this particular merit , which often is of great ser- vice , that he is laughed at for her sake . The friends of the fair - one are in much pain for the sufferings she goes through from the perseverance of this ...
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... heart , or it is all mere language ; and the writer of such lines is no more a poet , than a man is a physician for knowing the names of distempers , without the causes of them . Men of sense are pro- fessed enemies to all such empty ...
... heart , or it is all mere language ; and the writer of such lines is no more a poet , than a man is a physician for knowing the names of distempers , without the causes of them . Men of sense are pro- fessed enemies to all such empty ...
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... heart being set On bloody courses , the wide scene may end , And darkness be the burier of the dead . " Reading but this one scene has convinced me , that he , who describes the concern of great men , must have a soul as noble , and as ...
... heart being set On bloody courses , the wide scene may end , And darkness be the burier of the dead . " Reading but this one scene has convinced me , that he , who describes the concern of great men , must have a soul as noble , and as ...
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... heart : for you must know , he has pretended a long time to set up for himself , and gets among a crowd of the more unthinking part of man- kind , who take him for a person of the first qua- lity ; though his introduction into the world ...
... heart : for you must know , he has pretended a long time to set up for himself , and gets among a crowd of the more unthinking part of man- kind , who take him for a person of the first qua- lity ; though his introduction into the world ...
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... heart o'erflows in the praise of thee , Thou art by law , by interest , passion , mine : Passion and reason join in love of thee . Thus , through a world of calumny and fraud , We pass both unreproach'd , both undeceiv'd ; While , in ...
... heart o'erflows in the praise of thee , Thou art by law , by interest , passion , mine : Passion and reason join in love of thee . Thus , through a world of calumny and fraud , We pass both unreproach'd , both undeceiv'd ; While , in ...
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