The Spectator, Том 14Alexander Chalmers E. Sargeant, M. & W. Ward, Munroe, Francis & Parker, and Edward Cotton, Boston, 1810 |
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... speak of your own gaieties . But this is but a barren superficial pleasure ; for , indeed , Gatty , we are made for man ; and in serious sadness I must tell you , whether you yourself know it or no , all these gallantries tend to no ...
... speak of your own gaieties . But this is but a barren superficial pleasure ; for , indeed , Gatty , we are made for man ; and in serious sadness I must tell you , whether you yourself know it or no , all these gallantries tend to no ...
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... servants , commending us all for our fidelity , whilst we were not able to speak a word for weep- ing . As we most of us are grown grey - headed in our dear master's service , he has left us pensions No. 517 . 21 SPECTATOR .
... servants , commending us all for our fidelity , whilst we were not able to speak a word for weep- ing . As we most of us are grown grey - headed in our dear master's service , he has left us pensions No. 517 . 21 SPECTATOR .
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... speak a motion of the soul for which there is no name . When she kneels , and bids me be com- forted , she is my child : when I take her in my arms , and bid her say no more , she is my very wife , and is the very comforter I lament the ...
... speak a motion of the soul for which there is no name . When she kneels , and bids me be com- forted , she is my child : when I take her in my arms , and bid her say no more , she is my very wife , and is the very comforter I lament the ...
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... speak of in search of one of his falsehoods ; and have been present when they have described the very man they have spoken to , as him who first re- ported it , tall or short , black or fair , a gentleman or a raggamuffin , according as ...
... speak of in search of one of his falsehoods ; and have been present when they have described the very man they have spoken to , as him who first re- ported it , tall or short , black or fair , a gentleman or a raggamuffin , according as ...
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... need not own he married only to plunder an heiress of her fortune , nor pretend that he uses her ill , to avoid the ridi- culous name of a fond husband . Indeed , if I may speak my opinion of great $ 8 No. 525 SPECTATOR .
... need not own he married only to plunder an heiress of her fortune , nor pretend that he uses her ill , to avoid the ridi- culous name of a fond husband . Indeed , if I may speak my opinion of great $ 8 No. 525 SPECTATOR .
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Страница 138 - tis not done; the attempt and not the deed Confounds us. Hark! I laid their daggers ready; He could not miss them. Had he not resembled My father as he slept I had done 't.