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Page 23
... pain . The female world were very bufy among them- felves in bartering for features ; one was trucking a lock of grey hairs for a carbuncle , another was making over a fhort waist for a pair of round fhoul- ders , and a third cheapening ...
... pain . The female world were very bufy among them- felves in bartering for features ; one was trucking a lock of grey hairs for a carbuncle , another was making over a fhort waist for a pair of round fhoul- ders , and a third cheapening ...
Page 41
... pain ; And do not flay him who deferves alone A whipping for the fault that he hath done . CREECH . T is the work of a philofopher to be every day fub- duing his paffions , and laying afide his prejudices . I endeavour at least to look ...
... pain ; And do not flay him who deferves alone A whipping for the fault that he hath done . CREECH . T is the work of a philofopher to be every day fub- duing his paffions , and laying afide his prejudices . I endeavour at least to look ...
Page 70
... pains of his diffolu- tion to be nothing else but the breaking down of that partition , which ftands betwixt his foul and the fight of that Being , who is always prefent with him , and is about to manifeft itself to him in fulness of ...
... pains of his diffolu- tion to be nothing else but the breaking down of that partition , which ftands betwixt his foul and the fight of that Being , who is always prefent with him , and is about to manifeft itself to him in fulness of ...
Page 73
... pain itself would be of fo short a duration , that it would but just serve to enhance the value of pleasure : while I was in these thoughts , I unluckily called to mind a ftory of an ingenious gen- VOL . VIII . + G tleman tleman of the ...
... pain itself would be of fo short a duration , that it would but just serve to enhance the value of pleasure : while I was in these thoughts , I unluckily called to mind a ftory of an ingenious gen- VOL . VIII . + G tleman tleman of the ...
Page 75
... pain , He tugs with pincers , but he tugs in vain . Then to the patron of his art he pray'd : The patron of his art refus'd his aid . But now the Goddefs - mother , mov'd with grief , And pierc'd with pity , haftens her relief . A ...
... pain , He tugs with pincers , but he tugs in vain . Then to the patron of his art he pray'd : The patron of his art refus'd his aid . But now the Goddefs - mother , mov'd with grief , And pierc'd with pity , haftens her relief . A ...
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