“The” Spectator: With Historical and Biographical Preface, and Explanatory Notes, Հատոր 2J. Richardson and Company, 1823 |
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Արդյունքներ 63–ի 1-ից 5-ը:
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... live at a distance from the fashionable world ; but as it is a distinc- tion of a very singular nature , and what perhaps may never meet with a parallel , I think I should not have discharged the office of a faithful Specta- tor , had ...
... live at a distance from the fashionable world ; but as it is a distinc- tion of a very singular nature , and what perhaps may never meet with a parallel , I think I should not have discharged the office of a faithful Specta- tor , had ...
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... live under these constant apprehensions , and still go on to increase the cause of them . Can there be a more low and servile condition , than to be ashamed or afraid to see any one man breathing ? Yet he that is much in debt , is in ...
... live under these constant apprehensions , and still go on to increase the cause of them . Can there be a more low and servile condition , than to be ashamed or afraid to see any one man breathing ? Yet he that is much in debt , is in ...
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... lives in a state of invincible desire and impotence , and al- ways burn in the pursuit of what he always despairs to possess . It is for this reason ( says Plato ) that the souls of the dead appear frequently in cemete- ries , and hover ...
... lives in a state of invincible desire and impotence , and al- ways burn in the pursuit of what he always despairs to possess . It is for this reason ( says Plato ) that the souls of the dead appear frequently in cemete- ries , and hover ...
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... lives the lady Ho- noria , a widow about the age of forty , of a healthy constitution , gay temper , and elegant person . She dresses a little too much like a girl , affects a child- ish fondness in the tone of her voice , sometimes a ...
... lives the lady Ho- noria , a widow about the age of forty , of a healthy constitution , gay temper , and elegant person . She dresses a little too much like a girl , affects a child- ish fondness in the tone of her voice , sometimes a ...
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... live almost upon an equality in conver- sation ; and as Honoria has given Flavia to under- stand , that it is ill - bred to be always calling mother , Flavia is as well pleased never to be called child . It happens by this means , that ...
... live almost upon an equality in conver- sation ; and as Honoria has given Flavia to under- stand , that it is ill - bred to be always calling mother , Flavia is as well pleased never to be called child . It happens by this means , that ...
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