Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages, from the Best English Authors and Translations, Volumes 1-2Benjamin B. Mussey, 1842 |
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... kind be ex - variety of gallantries and amours . tinct ? Instances of tenderness in the He had , in his youth , attended a most savage brutes are so frequent , princess of France into Poland , that quotations of that kind are alto ...
... kind be ex - variety of gallantries and amours . tinct ? Instances of tenderness in the He had , in his youth , attended a most savage brutes are so frequent , princess of France into Poland , that quotations of that kind are alto ...
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... kind is the prodigality of and perhaps it might be found , that life : he that hopes to look back as the earth , however straitened by hereafter with satisfaction upon past rocks and waters , is capable of pro- years , must learn to ...
... kind is the prodigality of and perhaps it might be found , that life : he that hopes to look back as the earth , however straitened by hereafter with satisfaction upon past rocks and waters , is capable of pro- years , must learn to ...
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... kind of daylight in the humour in those who come within mind , and fills it with a steady and its influence . A man finds himself perpetual serenity . pleased , he does not know why , with Men of austere principles look up- the ...
... kind of daylight in the humour in those who come within mind , and fills it with a steady and its influence . A man finds himself perpetual serenity . pleased , he does not know why , with Men of austere principles look up- the ...
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... kind of theatre filled with ob- to this particular colour the epithet jects that either raise in us pleasure , of cheerful . amusement , or admiration . To consider further this double The reader's own thoughts will end in the works of ...
... kind of theatre filled with ob- to this particular colour the epithet jects that either raise in us pleasure , of cheerful . amusement , or admiration . To consider further this double The reader's own thoughts will end in the works of ...
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... kind of hypocrite more virtuous . too much insisted upon , I shall but The former is afraid of every thing just mention them , since they have that has the show of religion in it , been handled by many great and and would be thought ...
... kind of hypocrite more virtuous . too much insisted upon , I shall but The former is afraid of every thing just mention them , since they have that has the show of religion in it , been handled by many great and and would be thought ...
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Elegant Extracts, Or Useful and Entertaining Pieces of Poetry (Classic Reprint) Vicesimus Knox No preview available - 2018 |
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