The Monthly Visitor, and Entertaining Pocket Companion, Том 4H.D. Symonds, 1798 |
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... fuch a fa- vourable eftimate of his fervices , that the honour of knighthood was conferred upon him . This circum- ftance , of itself , is an ample teftimonial of his active and enterprifing difpofition . Upon the arrival of peace , he ...
... fuch a fa- vourable eftimate of his fervices , that the honour of knighthood was conferred upon him . This circum- ftance , of itself , is an ample teftimonial of his active and enterprifing difpofition . Upon the arrival of peace , he ...
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... fuch a fuitor as ftupid : the rattler they admire ; and it is but a ftep from admi- ration to love . The dear delightful dog , who can prate gaily of what he does not comprehend , and launch forth into a thousand idle eulogiums of a ...
... fuch a fuitor as ftupid : the rattler they admire ; and it is but a ftep from admi- ration to love . The dear delightful dog , who can prate gaily of what he does not comprehend , and launch forth into a thousand idle eulogiums of a ...
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... fuch il- Juftrations as every pedant is not indeed qualified to give ; this claffic biographer may initiate a young ftudent in the hiftory of Greece and Rome . My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for the ...
... fuch il- Juftrations as every pedant is not indeed qualified to give ; this claffic biographer may initiate a young ftudent in the hiftory of Greece and Rome . My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for the ...
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... fuch a cafe he will not become a fubject of pity to his connexions ; and prove a burden to himfelf . Of him it never will be faid in the expreflive language of Gray , - Hard by yon wood , now fmiling as in fcorn , Muttering his wayward ...
... fuch a cafe he will not become a fubject of pity to his connexions ; and prove a burden to himfelf . Of him it never will be faid in the expreflive language of Gray , - Hard by yon wood , now fmiling as in fcorn , Muttering his wayward ...
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... fuch a mass of abfurdity : it at laft concluded , and was followed by an entertainment , if poffible , ftill more ab- furd . It feemed a ftrong caricature of the diftorted co- medy we had juft feen , with only one difference , that in ...
... fuch a mass of abfurdity : it at laft concluded , and was followed by an entertainment , if poffible , ftill more ab- furd . It feemed a ftrong caricature of the diftorted co- medy we had juft feen , with only one difference , that in ...
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