The Spectator, Volume 4J.M. Dent & Company, 1913 |
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Page 15
... love to see every Thing in its Perfection , and am more pleased to survey my Rows of Colworts and Cabbages , with a thousand nameless Pot - herbs , springing up in their full Fragrancy and Verdure , than to see the tender Plants of ...
... love to see every Thing in its Perfection , and am more pleased to survey my Rows of Colworts and Cabbages , with a thousand nameless Pot - herbs , springing up in their full Fragrancy and Verdure , than to see the tender Plants of ...
Page 16
... love to live in Gardens , have never thought of contriving a Winter Garden , which should consist of such Trees only as never cast their Leaves . We have very often little Snatches of Sun - shine and fair Weather in the most ...
... love to live in Gardens , have never thought of contriving a Winter Garden , which should consist of such Trees only as never cast their Leaves . We have very often little Snatches of Sun - shine and fair Weather in the most ...
Page 23
... Love in a Stile , and with Sentiments very unfit for ordinary Life : They are half Theatrical , half Romantick . By ... loves as liable to all the Calamities of humane Life both in Body and Mind , and even at the best , what must bring ...
... Love in a Stile , and with Sentiments very unfit for ordinary Life : They are half Theatrical , half Romantick . By ... loves as liable to all the Calamities of humane Life both in Body and Mind , and even at the best , what must bring ...
Page 26
... Love in its natural Beauties and Attractions , I am got into Tales to the Disadvantage of that State of Life . I must say therefore , that I am verily perswaded that whatever is delightful in humane Life , is to be enjoyed in greater ...
... Love in its natural Beauties and Attractions , I am got into Tales to the Disadvantage of that State of Life . I must say therefore , that I am verily perswaded that whatever is delightful in humane Life , is to be enjoyed in greater ...
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... love will not carry me so far , as to impose upon Mankind the Advancement of Persons ( meerly for their being related to me ) into high Distinctions , who ought for their own Sakes , as well as that of the Publick , to affect Obscurity ...
... love will not carry me so far , as to impose upon Mankind the Advancement of Persons ( meerly for their being related to me ) into high Distinctions , who ought for their own Sakes , as well as that of the Publick , to affect Obscurity ...
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