The British Essayists: TatlerNichols and Son, 1817 |
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... fancy every thing , and , as it is the nature of man in fear , I fancy those things most , which I am most afraid of . Let me therefore earnestly desire you to favour me , un- der these my apprehensions , with one letter every day , or ...
... fancy every thing , and , as it is the nature of man in fear , I fancy those things most , which I am most afraid of . Let me therefore earnestly desire you to favour me , un- der these my apprehensions , with one letter every day , or ...
Էջ 32
... fancy rather than their own in this particular ) , I can assure them , there is nothing touches our imagination so much as a beautiful wo- man in a plain dress . There might be more agree- able ornaments found in our own manufacture ...
... fancy rather than their own in this particular ) , I can assure them , there is nothing touches our imagination so much as a beautiful wo- man in a plain dress . There might be more agree- able ornaments found in our own manufacture ...
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... fancy , which the soul usually falls into when she is just upon the verge of death . Thus far Æneas travels in an allegory . The rest of the description is drawn with great exactness , according to the religion of the heathens , and the ...
... fancy , which the soul usually falls into when she is just upon the verge of death . Thus far Æneas travels in an allegory . The rest of the description is drawn with great exactness , according to the religion of the heathens , and the ...
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... fancy and caprice of several slaves , who have here an opportunity of tyrannizing in their turns . The author , having given us a description of these ghastly spectres , who , says he , are always calling upon Death , and are placed ...
... fancy and caprice of several slaves , who have here an opportunity of tyrannizing in their turns . The author , having given us a description of these ghastly spectres , who , says he , are always calling upon Death , and are placed ...
Էջ 78
... fancy that I write longer letters to any one than to yourself , unless when I chance to re- ceive a longer letter from another , which I am in- dispensably obliged to answer in every particular . The truth of it is , I have no subject ...
... fancy that I write longer letters to any one than to yourself , unless when I chance to re- ceive a longer letter from another , which I am in- dispensably obliged to answer in every particular . The truth of it is , I have no subject ...
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