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Page 63
... kind of ambition by which fome men grow eminent for odd accomplishments , and trivial performances . How many are there whose whole reputation depends upon a pun or a quibble ? You may often fee an artist in the streets gain a cir- cle ...
... kind of ambition by which fome men grow eminent for odd accomplishments , and trivial performances . How many are there whose whole reputation depends upon a pun or a quibble ? You may often fee an artist in the streets gain a cir- cle ...
Page 65
... kind of bur- lefque musician . He afterwards , of his own accord , fell into the imitation of feveral finging - birds . My friend and I toafted our mistreffes to the nightingale , when all of a fudden we were furprised with the mufic of ...
... kind of bur- lefque musician . He afterwards , of his own accord , fell into the imitation of feveral finging - birds . My friend and I toafted our mistreffes to the nightingale , when all of a fudden we were furprised with the mufic of ...
Page 73
... kind of arsenal or ma- gazine , where store of arms were repofited against any fudden invasion . Should you be attacked by the ene- my fide - ways , here was an infallible piece of defen- five armour to cure the pleurify : fhould a ...
... kind of arsenal or ma- gazine , where store of arms were repofited against any fudden invasion . Should you be attacked by the ene- my fide - ways , here was an infallible piece of defen- five armour to cure the pleurify : fhould a ...
Page 77
... kind- ' nefs between near relations . I was too great a ' coward to contend , but not so ignorant a child to ' be thus impofed upon . I refented his contempt as I ought to do , and as most poor paffive blinded wives do , till it pleafed ...
... kind- ' nefs between near relations . I was too great a ' coward to contend , but not so ignorant a child to ' be thus impofed upon . I refented his contempt as I ought to do , and as most poor paffive blinded wives do , till it pleafed ...
Page 83
... kind fates beftow , And have the art to use the store : That have the generous fkill to bear The hated weight of poverty . CREECH . Was once engaged in a difcourfe with a Roficrucian about the great fecret . As this kind of men ( I mean ...
... kind fates beftow , And have the art to use the store : That have the generous fkill to bear The hated weight of poverty . CREECH . Was once engaged in a difcourfe with a Roficrucian about the great fecret . As this kind of men ( I mean ...
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