The Spectator, Volume 3Harrison and Company, 1793 - English essays |
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... thoughts hang at beft in a state of doubtfulness and uncertainty ; and are never capable of receiving any fatisfaction on the advantage- ous fide ; fo that his inquiries are moft fuccefsful when they difcover nothing . His pleasure ...
... thoughts hang at beft in a state of doubtfulness and uncertainty ; and are never capable of receiving any fatisfaction on the advantage- ous fide ; fo that his inquiries are moft fuccefsful when they difcover nothing . His pleasure ...
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... thoughts : and is angry at every thing the admires , or takes delight in , be- fides himself . Phædria's requeft to his miftrefs upon his leaving her for three days , is inimitably beautiful and natural . sc Cum milite ifto præfens ...
... thoughts : and is angry at every thing the admires , or takes delight in , be- fides himself . Phædria's requeft to his miftrefs upon his leaving her for three days , is inimitably beautiful and natural . sc Cum milite ifto præfens ...
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... thoughts must be employed on another ; and if fad , he is certainly thinking on himself . In fhort , there is no word ... thought of , and fills her imagination with such an unlucky idea , as in time grows familiar , excites defire , and ...
... thoughts must be employed on another ; and if fad , he is certainly thinking on himself . In fhort , there is no word ... thought of , and fills her imagination with such an unlucky idea , as in time grows familiar , excites defire , and ...
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... thoughts upon their wives . A fecond fort of men , who are moft liable to this paf- fion , arc thofe of cunning , wary ... thought . They put a conftruction on a look , and find out a defign in a smile ; they give new fenfes and and ...
... thoughts upon their wives . A fecond fort of men , who are moft liable to this paf- fion , arc thofe of cunning , wary ... thought . They put a conftruction on a look , and find out a defign in a smile ; they give new fenfes and and ...
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... thoughts were fo wholly taken up with the cruelty of his orders , that she could not confider the kindness that pro- duced them , and therefore represented him in her imagi- nation , rather under the frightful idea of a murderer than a ...
... thoughts were fo wholly taken up with the cruelty of his orders , that she could not confider the kindness that pro- duced them , and therefore represented him in her imagi- nation , rather under the frightful idea of a murderer than a ...
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