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... less desirable than Vir- tue . Almerine and Shelimah : A Fairy Tale ...... JOHNSON · HAWKES . WARTON . 104. The Fairy Tale concluded 105. On the Fragments of Menander 106. Insensibility of Danger , when mis- taken for Courage ...
... less desirable than Vir- tue . Almerine and Shelimah : A Fairy Tale ...... JOHNSON · HAWKES . WARTON . 104. The Fairy Tale concluded 105. On the Fragments of Menander 106. Insensibility of Danger , when mis- taken for Courage ...
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... less ; and , perhaps , where he excels Theocritus , he sometimes obtains his superiority by deviating from the pastoral character , and performing what Theocritus never attempted . Yet , though I would willingly pay to Theocritus the ...
... less ; and , perhaps , where he excels Theocritus , he sometimes obtains his superiority by deviating from the pastoral character , and performing what Theocritus never attempted . Yet , though I would willingly pay to Theocritus the ...
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... less , conceived and carried on the machinery in his " Rape of the Lock , ' with vast exuberance of fancy . The images , customs and employments of his Sylphs , are exactly adapted to their natures , are peculiar and appropriated , are ...
... less , conceived and carried on the machinery in his " Rape of the Lock , ' with vast exuberance of fancy . The images , customs and employments of his Sylphs , are exactly adapted to their natures , are peculiar and appropriated , are ...
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... is the value of life less , than if our enjoyment did not thus consist in anticipation ; for by antici- pation , the pleasure which would otherwise be con- tracted within an hour , is diffused through a week 16 N ° 94 . ADVENTURER .
... is the value of life less , than if our enjoyment did not thus consist in anticipation ; for by antici- pation , the pleasure which would otherwise be con- tracted within an hour , is diffused through a week 16 N ° 94 . ADVENTURER .
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... less a misfortune to myself than you , that you was not five minutes sooner in your application . The gentleman whose recommendation you bring , I wish more than any other to oblige ; but I have just presented the living to the person ...
... less a misfortune to myself than you , that you was not five minutes sooner in your application . The gentleman whose recommendation you bring , I wish more than any other to oblige ; but I have just presented the living to the person ...
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acquainted ADVENTURER Almerine ancient appearance bagnio beauty became brothel Catiline censure character Clodio considered contempt Cordelia countenance courage Covent Garden Crito danger daughters delight Demosthenes Diphilus disappointed discovered distress dreadful dress DRYDEN equal Euripides Euryalus evil excellence eyes father fear felicity Flavilla folly fortune frequently gentleman Gonerill gratify guilt happiness hast heart Hilario honour hope Hudibras imagination impatient increased insensibility kind knew labour lady Lear lect less live look mankind marriage Menander ment Mercator mind misery morning nature ness never night obtain OVID passion perceived perhaps perpetual pity Plautus pleasure Plutarch portunity Posidippus present produced Quintilian reason reflected scarce scene sentiments servant Shakspeare Shelimah shew solicitous Soliman solitude sometimes soon Sophocles spect suffered Tartuffe tenderness thee Theocritus thing thou thought tion told truth TUESDAY VIRG virtue wish wretch writers