The idler. PoemsPafraets Book Company, 1908 |
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... Tell not me , Sir , of impeccability and perfection ; such talk is for those that are strangers in the world : I ... telling them , with injunctions of secrecy , how poor Spritely began to take liberties with men wiser than himself ; but ...
... Tell not me , Sir , of impeccability and perfection ; such talk is for those that are strangers in the world : I ... telling them , with injunctions of secrecy , how poor Spritely began to take liberties with men wiser than himself ; but ...
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... tell how often , amidst the ecstasies of an opera , she shall pity those friends whom she has left behind . Her hope of giving pain is seldom disappointed ; the affected indifference of one , the faint congratulations of another , the ...
... tell how often , amidst the ecstasies of an opera , she shall pity those friends whom she has left behind . Her hope of giving pain is seldom disappointed ; the affected indifference of one , the faint congratulations of another , the ...
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... telling her of dangers to be dreaded , and cautions to be observed . She hears them as they heard their predecessors , with incredulity or con- tempt . She sees that they have ventured and escaped ; and one of the pleasures which she ...
... telling her of dangers to be dreaded , and cautions to be observed . She hears them as they heard their predecessors , with incredulity or con- tempt . She sees that they have ventured and escaped ; and one of the pleasures which she ...
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... tell us , with great vehemence , that we are learning words when we should learn things . He is of opinion that we suck in errours at the nurse's breast , and thinks it extremely ridiculous that children should be taught to use the ...
... tell us , with great vehemence , that we are learning words when we should learn things . He is of opinion that we suck in errours at the nurse's breast , and thinks it extremely ridiculous that children should be taught to use the ...
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... tell not how any man became great , but how he was made happy ; not how he lost the favour of his prince , but how he became discontented with himself . Those relations are , therefore , commonly of most value in which the writer tells ...
... tell not how any man became great , but how he was made happy ; not how he lost the favour of his prince , but how he became discontented with himself . Those relations are , therefore , commonly of most value in which the writer tells ...
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