Fugitive Pieces, on Various Subjects, Volume 1R. and J. Dodsley, 1761 - English essays |
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... point out Grace ; but no one that I know of has ever yet fixt upon a Definition for it . Grace often depends on fome very little Incidents in a fine Face ; and in Actions , it confifts more in the Manner of doing Things , than in the ...
... point out Grace ; but no one that I know of has ever yet fixt upon a Definition for it . Grace often depends on fome very little Incidents in a fine Face ; and in Actions , it confifts more in the Manner of doing Things , than in the ...
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Robert Dodsley. But though one cannot punctually fay what Grace is , we may point out the Parts and Things in which it is moft apt to appear . The chief Dwelling - place of Grace is about the Mouth ; though , at Times , it may vifit ...
Robert Dodsley. But though one cannot punctually fay what Grace is , we may point out the Parts and Things in which it is moft apt to appear . The chief Dwelling - place of Grace is about the Mouth ; though , at Times , it may vifit ...
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... points out the Majesty of Juno , and in another the graceful Air of Apollo [ e ] , by only It is obfervable , that in each of the Three laft Paffages , Milton feems to have had those Lines of Tibullus in his Thoughts : Illam , quicquid ...
... points out the Majesty of Juno , and in another the graceful Air of Apollo [ e ] , by only It is obfervable , that in each of the Three laft Paffages , Milton feems to have had those Lines of Tibullus in his Thoughts : Illam , quicquid ...
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... point out to you , what might be done by fuch as are more exact Judges of Beauty than I can pretend to be . The belt may be liable to fome little falfe Byas or other ' ; but if their Calculations did not answer in every Point precisely ...
... point out to you , what might be done by fuch as are more exact Judges of Beauty than I can pretend to be . The belt may be liable to fome little falfe Byas or other ' ; but if their Calculations did not answer in every Point precisely ...
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... Points of the Compass ; with Towers , Walls , Parapets , and Battlements . It has its Streets , Squares , Temples , Exchanges , Markets , Shops , Tribunals , Palaces , and a Port for Veffels . In one Word , every thing that is at Pekin ...
... Points of the Compass ; with Towers , Walls , Parapets , and Battlements . It has its Streets , Squares , Temples , Exchanges , Markets , Shops , Tribunals , Palaces , and a Port for Veffels . In one Word , every thing that is at Pekin ...
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