The Spectator, Volume 6Harrison and Company, 1793 - English essays |
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... bear the burden of your Grace's difpleasure , and that it may not touch the innocent fouls of those poor gentlemen , who ( as I understand ) are likewife in ftrait imprisonment for my fake . If ever I have found favour in your fight ...
... bear the burden of your Grace's difpleasure , and that it may not touch the innocent fouls of those poor gentlemen , who ( as I understand ) are likewife in ftrait imprisonment for my fake . If ever I have found favour in your fight ...
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... bear among their enemies . Our friends very often flatter us as much as our own hearts . They either do not fee our faults , or conceal them from us , or foften them by their reprefentations , after fuch a manner , that we think them ...
... bear among their enemies . Our friends very often flatter us as much as our own hearts . They either do not fee our faults , or conceal them from us , or foften them by their reprefentations , after fuch a manner , that we think them ...
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... bears a high refentment for being put out of her courte , and never fails of taking her revenge on those that do fo . Oppofing her tendency in the application of a man's parts , has the fame fuccefs as declining from her courfe in the ...
... bears a high refentment for being put out of her courte , and never fails of taking her revenge on those that do fo . Oppofing her tendency in the application of a man's parts , has the fame fuccefs as declining from her courfe in the ...
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... bear a pleafing image of the joys and fatisfactions of a private life . The first is from a gentleman to a friend , for whom he has a very great refpect , and to whom he communicates the fatis- faction he takes in retirement ; the other ...
... bear a pleafing image of the joys and fatisfactions of a private life . The first is from a gentleman to a friend , for whom he has a very great refpect , and to whom he communicates the fatis- faction he takes in retirement ; the other ...
Page 62
... bear the pleasure which refults from its greatness , novelty or beauty ; but ftill there will be fuch à mixture of de- light in the very disgust it gives us , as any of these three qualifications are most confpicuous and prevailing . By ...
... bear the pleasure which refults from its greatness , novelty or beauty ; but ftill there will be fuch à mixture of de- light in the very disgust it gives us , as any of these three qualifications are most confpicuous and prevailing . By ...
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