The History of Miss Pittborough: In a Series of Letters. By a Lady. In Two Volumes. ...A. Millar, and T. Cadell; and J. Johnson and Company, 1767 |
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... least , your repofe . With what unspeakable rapture fhall I receive you once more into our innocent retreat , if you fhould be fo fortunate as to efcape the evils that threaten you . That ever vivacity fhould render any one unamiable ...
... least , your repofe . With what unspeakable rapture fhall I receive you once more into our innocent retreat , if you fhould be fo fortunate as to efcape the evils that threaten you . That ever vivacity fhould render any one unamiable ...
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... least re- fiftance , it is but throwing it from one ; but otherwise , if he capered on like the fore - horse of a team , toffing his head , and difregarding his fteps , it would be kind to convince him of his folly , by letting him down ...
... least re- fiftance , it is but throwing it from one ; but otherwise , if he capered on like the fore - horse of a team , toffing his head , and difregarding his fteps , it would be kind to convince him of his folly , by letting him down ...
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... least pretensions to even the agreeable . - Her cheeks are most dazzlingly red ; - her eyes fpirited , yet heavy and ill - colour- ed ; her hair ( untaught to comply with Pidgeon's difcipline ) rudely exuberant ; - her mouth , playing ...
... least pretensions to even the agreeable . - Her cheeks are most dazzlingly red ; - her eyes fpirited , yet heavy and ill - colour- ed ; her hair ( untaught to comply with Pidgeon's difcipline ) rudely exuberant ; - her mouth , playing ...
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... least ex- pected , in the language of the poet , 100 refume the empire which they gave , And foon the tyrant fhall become the flave . A generous mind , I grant you , must be incapable of defcending to ungenerous actions ; but we are fo ...
... least ex- pected , in the language of the poet , 100 refume the empire which they gave , And foon the tyrant fhall become the flave . A generous mind , I grant you , must be incapable of defcending to ungenerous actions ; but we are fo ...
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... have produced , notwithstanding his too natural infenfibility ; at least I had not forfeited that fupport of the wretched - a ray of hope which her prefence totally - ob- obfcures . - Self - preservation incites me to - 106 The HISTORY of.
... have produced , notwithstanding his too natural infenfibility ; at least I had not forfeited that fupport of the wretched - a ray of hope which her prefence totally - ob- obfcures . - Self - preservation incites me to - 106 The HISTORY of.
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Страница 32 - Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike. Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide: If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget them all.
Страница 19 - Some hours leisure, and the appearance of Garrick in the character of Richard, induced me to engage a solitary place in the side-box, that I might indulge myself, free from all that impertinent interruption a party is too liable to produce.