The idler. PoemsPafraets Book Company, 1908 |
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... pleasure can be expected more than the variety of the journey , I know not , for the num- bers are too great for privacy , and too small for di- version . As each is known to be a spy upon the rest , they all live in continual restraint ...
... pleasure can be expected more than the variety of the journey , I know not , for the num- bers are too great for privacy , and too small for di- version . As each is known to be a spy upon the rest , they all live in continual restraint ...
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... pleasure , a slight disgust turns us aside before a deep impression can be made upon the mind . There was a select ... pleasures of learned society . I know not whether by merit or destiny , I was , soon after my arrival , admitted to ...
... pleasure , a slight disgust turns us aside before a deep impression can be made upon the mind . There was a select ... pleasures of learned society . I know not whether by merit or destiny , I was , soon after my arrival , admitted to ...
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... pleasure is as great Of being cheated , as to cheat ; and from Waller , Poets lose half the praise they would have got , Were it but known what they discreetly blot . Dick Misty is a man of deep research , and forcible penetration ...
... pleasure is as great Of being cheated , as to cheat ; and from Waller , Poets lose half the praise they would have got , Were it but known what they discreetly blot . Dick Misty is a man of deep research , and forcible penetration ...
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... pleasures and its joys . The time is now come when the town is again beginning to be full , and the rusticated beauty sees an end of her banishment . Those whom the tyranny of fashion had condemned to pass the summer among shades and ...
... pleasures and its joys . The time is now come when the town is again beginning to be full , and the rusticated beauty sees an end of her banishment . Those whom the tyranny of fashion had condemned to pass the summer among shades and ...
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... pleasure , where nothing is seen but the blaze of wealth , and nothing heard but merriment and flat- tery ; where ... pleasures which she promises herself is to detect their falsehoods , and be freed from their admonitions . We are ...
... pleasure , where nothing is seen but the blaze of wealth , and nothing heard but merriment and flat- tery ; where ... pleasures which she promises herself is to detect their falsehoods , and be freed from their admonitions . We are ...
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