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... symptom of good sense in " confining her thoughts to elder merits , " instead of " solacing " her youthful admirer , who , at the period of first taking the infection into his eye , could not have reached his eighteenth year .
... symptom of good sense in " confining her thoughts to elder merits , " instead of " solacing " her youthful admirer , who , at the period of first taking the infection into his eye , could not have reached his eighteenth year .
Page xxxix
It is not from any picturesque views presented to the mind ; for of imaginative poetry he has little or nothing he cannot conjure up a succession of images , whether grave or gay , to flit across the fancy , or play in the eye ; yet it ...
It is not from any picturesque views presented to the mind ; for of imaginative poetry he has little or nothing he cannot conjure up a succession of images , whether grave or gay , to flit across the fancy , or play in the eye ; yet it ...
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Wench ! as it is not fit that thou shouldst be either fair or honest , so , " & c . G.55 . W. 161. - Wipe mine eyes , and blubber out my speech thus . Read : Wipe mine eyes , fold my arms , and blubber out my speech , as thus . G. 55.
Wench ! as it is not fit that thou shouldst be either fair or honest , so , " & c . G.55 . W. 161. - Wipe mine eyes , and blubber out my speech thus . Read : Wipe mine eyes , fold my arms , and blubber out my speech , as thus . G. 55.
Page cviii
In Massinger they could find errors in every page ; but in the publication before us , their lynx - eyes wearied themselves in vain to detect a mistake . Read : G.317 . W.290 . Read : When any troubled passion makes assault On the ...
In Massinger they could find errors in every page ; but in the publication before us , their lynx - eyes wearied themselves in vain to detect a mistake . Read : G.317 . W.290 . Read : When any troubled passion makes assault On the ...
Page cxxxv
Oylet - holes are the eyes of needles . " 66 Pinching a skin full of the eyes of needles is every way worthy of the critic . Read : Let my skin be punch'd full of oylet - holes , & c . Oylet - holes , as every child knows , are little ...
Oylet - holes are the eyes of needles . " 66 Pinching a skin full of the eyes of needles is every way worthy of the critic . Read : Let my skin be punch'd full of oylet - holes , & c . Oylet - holes , as every child knows , are little ...
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