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... and an angry man that will chide , fpeaks worfe than he thinks . BETTER to reign in hell , than ferve in heaven . He rais'd a mortal to the skies ; She brought an angel down . When WHEN any term , or phrafe , is used to xxii ESSAY ON.
... and an angry man that will chide , fpeaks worfe than he thinks . BETTER to reign in hell , than ferve in heaven . He rais'd a mortal to the skies ; She brought an angel down . When WHEN any term , or phrafe , is used to xxii ESSAY ON.
Page xxv
... SHE , IT , AND , WE , YE , THEY , fright the foul . EMPHASIS is often deftroyed by an injudicious attempt to read melodiously . In reading verfe , this fault fome- times arifes from a falfe notion of the neceffity of pre- ferving an ...
... SHE , IT , AND , WE , YE , THEY , fright the foul . EMPHASIS is often deftroyed by an injudicious attempt to read melodiously . In reading verfe , this fault fome- times arifes from a falfe notion of the neceffity of pre- ferving an ...
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... she has sometimes made a fool , but a coxcomb is always of his own making . It is the infirmity of little minds to be taken with every appearance , and dazzled with every thing that sparkles ; but great minds have but little admiration ...
... she has sometimes made a fool , but a coxcomb is always of his own making . It is the infirmity of little minds to be taken with every appearance , and dazzled with every thing that sparkles ; but great minds have but little admiration ...
Page 27
... white and red ; and endeavoured to appear more graceful than ordinary in her mien , by a mixture of affectation C 2 affectation in all her geftures . She had a wonderful CHAP . VII . 27 NARRATIVE PIECES . VII Hercules's Choice.
... white and red ; and endeavoured to appear more graceful than ordinary in her mien , by a mixture of affectation C 2 affectation in all her geftures . She had a wonderful CHAP . VII . 27 NARRATIVE PIECES . VII Hercules's Choice.
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... She had a wonderful confi- dence and affurance in her looks , and all the variety of co- lours in her drefs , that she thought were the moft proper to fhew her complexion to advantage . She caft her eyes upon herself , then turned them ...
... She had a wonderful confi- dence and affurance in her looks , and all the variety of co- lours in her drefs , that she thought were the moft proper to fhew her complexion to advantage . She caft her eyes upon herself , then turned them ...
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