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... SIR JOHN . A moment's patience , Sir ! Nothing but the excess of my passion for Miss Fanny should have in , duced me to take any step , that had the least appearance of disrespect to any part of your family ; and even now I am desirous ...
... SIR JOHN . A moment's patience , Sir ! Nothing but the excess of my passion for Miss Fanny should have in , duced me to take any step , that had the least appearance of disrespect to any part of your family ; and even now I am desirous ...
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... Sir John ? For you know I am to pay this money into the hands of my Lord Ogleby ; who , I believe , betwixt you and me , Sir John , is not overstocked with ready money at present ; and threescore thousand of it , you know , are to go to ...
... Sir John ? For you know I am to pay this money into the hands of my Lord Ogleby ; who , I believe , betwixt you and me , Sir John , is not overstocked with ready money at present ; and threescore thousand of it , you know , are to go to ...
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... SIR JOHN . I will fly to her immediately : you promise me your assistance ? STERL . I do . SIR JOHN . Ten thousand thanks for it ! and now suc cess attend me !, STERL . Harkee , Sir John ! -Not a word of the thirty thousand to my sister , ...
... SIR JOHN . I will fly to her immediately : you promise me your assistance ? STERL . I do . SIR JOHN . Ten thousand thanks for it ! and now suc cess attend me !, STERL . Harkee , Sir John ! -Not a word of the thirty thousand to my sister , ...
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Virtue our higheſt Intereſt | 2 |
Elegy written in a Coun | 10 |
NARRATIVE PIECES | 14 |
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