The idler. PoemsPafraets Book Company, 1908 |
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... hour has its proper pleasure , where nothing is seen but the blaze of wealth , and nothing heard but merriment and flat- tery ; where the morning always rises on a show , and the evening closes on a ball ; where the eyes are used only ...
... hour has its proper pleasure , where nothing is seen but the blaze of wealth , and nothing heard but merriment and flat- tery ; where the morning always rises on a show , and the evening closes on a ball ; where the eyes are used only ...
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... hours have , indeed , a great variety both of pleasure and of pain . The stranger , gazed on by multitudes at her first appearance in the Park , is , perhaps at the highest summit of female happiness ; but how great is the anguish when ...
... hours have , indeed , a great variety both of pleasure and of pain . The stranger , gazed on by multitudes at her first appearance in the Park , is , perhaps at the highest summit of female happiness ; but how great is the anguish when ...
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... hours of night . I have at last begun what I have long wished at an end , and find it more easy than I expected to continue my narration . Our assembly could boast no such constellation of intellects as Clarendon's band of associates ...
... hours of night . I have at last begun what I have long wished at an end , and find it more easy than I expected to continue my narration . Our assembly could boast no such constellation of intellects as Clarendon's band of associates ...
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... hour with all the powers of eloquence and reason , and his position appears to all but himself utterly untenable , he al- ways closes the debate with his first declaration , in- troduced by a stout preface of contemptuous civility ...
... hour with all the powers of eloquence and reason , and his position appears to all but himself utterly untenable , he al- ways closes the debate with his first declaration , in- troduced by a stout preface of contemptuous civility ...
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... hour , as equal wasters of human life , and would make no other difference between them , than between a beast of prey and a flight of locusts . SIR , No. 86. SATURDAY , DECEMBER 8 , 1759 TO THE IDLER . AM a young lady newly married to ...
... hour , as equal wasters of human life , and would make no other difference between them , than between a beast of prey and a flight of locusts . SIR , No. 86. SATURDAY , DECEMBER 8 , 1759 TO THE IDLER . AM a young lady newly married to ...
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