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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... vanity , and youth , are dangerous companions , not to Nay , Nancy , none of your severity ; furely in the second person one might have faid a civil thing : - but your over - fqueamishness has thrown me out of my train , I am , moft ...
... vanity , and youth , are dangerous companions , not to Nay , Nancy , none of your severity ; furely in the second person one might have faid a civil thing : - but your over - fqueamishness has thrown me out of my train , I am , moft ...
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... vanity itself , and involuntarily led me to draw a parallel between human tranfactions , and the fiction that then engaged my atten- tion . - O life ! what art thou ( whispered a mental fomething I was till that time utterly ...
... vanity itself , and involuntarily led me to draw a parallel between human tranfactions , and the fiction that then engaged my atten- tion . - O life ! what art thou ( whispered a mental fomething I was till that time utterly ...
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... vanity is far from being the product of any particular foil : had you been bred in the gay metropolis from your earlieft infancy , you could not have been a more finished coquet ; nor would your fimple misjudging heart have felt a ...
... vanity is far from being the product of any particular foil : had you been bred in the gay metropolis from your earlieft infancy , you could not have been a more finished coquet ; nor would your fimple misjudging heart have felt a ...
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... vanity a perpetual feaft . But , my dear fifter , fit loose I beseech you to every flattering infinuation . - It is in- nocence and good humour that enlightens your countenance ; deprive yourself of them , and even your plain - faced ...
... vanity a perpetual feaft . But , my dear fifter , fit loose I beseech you to every flattering infinuation . - It is in- nocence and good humour that enlightens your countenance ; deprive yourself of them , and even your plain - faced ...
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... vanity's fake , and , if I was weak enough to add , for love's fake , I fear I fhould not do my- felf injustice ; I am above half inclined to oblige him . Eleven o'clock p . m . Well , all is over ; and we are the loves and the doves ...
... vanity's fake , and , if I was weak enough to add , for love's fake , I fear I fhould not do my- felf injustice ; I am above half inclined to oblige him . Eleven o'clock p . m . Well , all is over ; and we are the loves and the doves ...
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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.