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... charm- ing ! or , Oh horrible ! -People who have reasons for their preferences and aversions , are never so provokingly zealous in the support of their own tastes , as those usually are who have no arguments to convince themselves or ...
... charm- ing ! or , Oh horrible ! -People who have reasons for their preferences and aversions , are never so provokingly zealous in the support of their own tastes , as those usually are who have no arguments to convince themselves or ...
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... charming poem of Mrs. Barbauld's- " The origin of song - writing . " — Would it not afford . a beautiful subject for a picture ? + Milton . Appendix to Monthly Review , from January to April 1798 , page 516 . arises from prejudice ...
... charming poem of Mrs. Barbauld's- " The origin of song - writing . " — Would it not afford . a beautiful subject for a picture ? + Milton . Appendix to Monthly Review , from January to April 1798 , page 516 . arises from prejudice ...
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... charming , " " interesting , " captivating , " I must , dear Julia , venture to reason with you , to examine your favourite doctrine of " amiable defects , " and if possible to dissipate that unjust dread of perfection which you seem to ...
... charming , " " interesting , " captivating , " I must , dear Julia , venture to reason with you , to examine your favourite doctrine of " amiable defects , " and if possible to dissipate that unjust dread of perfection which you seem to ...
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... charm , before the season of its duration expire . It was said to be the wish of a celebrated modern beauty , " that she might not survive her nine and twentieth birth - day . " I have often heard this wish quoted , for its extravagance ...
... charm , before the season of its duration expire . It was said to be the wish of a celebrated modern beauty , " that she might not survive her nine and twentieth birth - day . " I have often heard this wish quoted , for its extravagance ...
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... , and have the desired effect : Somnus will prove propitious ; then , ever and anon as the soporific charm begins to work , rouse him with interrogato- ries , such as , " Did not you so 9 LETTERS FOR LITERARY LADIES . 65.
... , and have the desired effect : Somnus will prove propitious ; then , ever and anon as the soporific charm begins to work , rouse him with interrogato- ries , such as , " Did not you so 9 LETTERS FOR LITERARY LADIES . 65.
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