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... young woman who has assisted me in the " lace - trade for these last three months , is not called “ Amanda , but Lucretia . " I am , # " Your very humble servant , " WINNEFRED BOBBIN . " Ludgate hill , Dec. 30 , 1753. " I wish with all ...
... young woman who has assisted me in the " lace - trade for these last three months , is not called “ Amanda , but Lucretia . " I am , # " Your very humble servant , " WINNEFRED BOBBIN . " Ludgate hill , Dec. 30 , 1753. " I wish with all ...
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... young creatures are so ap- rehensive for their companions , that they deny them eauty in order to secure them from the attempts of bertines . They know that the principal ornament ›› f beauty is virtue ; and that without both a lady is ...
... young creatures are so ap- rehensive for their companions , that they deny them eauty in order to secure them from the attempts of bertines . They know that the principal ornament ›› f beauty is virtue ; and that without both a lady is ...
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... young man , than that of being too handsome : it is a thousand to one that in the course of his education he loses the very dig- nity of his sex and nature . During his infancy his father himself will be too apt to be pleased with the ...
... young man , than that of being too handsome : it is a thousand to one that in the course of his education he loses the very dig- nity of his sex and nature . During his infancy his father himself will be too apt to be pleased with the ...
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... young fellows of my acquaintance are at present warm borough - hunters : now as most of them are infinitely too ignorant to suffer one to imagine they do it with a view of serving their country , and much too negligent and degage to aim ...
... young fellows of my acquaintance are at present warm borough - hunters : now as most of them are infinitely too ignorant to suffer one to imagine they do it with a view of serving their country , and much too negligent and degage to aim ...
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... young men of the present generation , who are ambi- tious of establishing a character for taste , to advance towards it by so slow and regular a progression . They seem in general to be possessed with a kind of epic madness , and are ...
... young men of the present generation , who are ambi- tious of establishing a character for taste , to advance towards it by so slow and regular a progression . They seem in general to be possessed with a kind of epic madness , and are ...
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Page 252 - The handcuffs and fetters in which the hero commonly appears at the end of the second, or the beginning of the third...
Page 36 - And that which should accompany old age, As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have ; but, in their stead, Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath, Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not.
Page 190 - Roger's; it is usual in all other places, that servants fly from the parts of the house through which their master is passing; on the contrary, here they industriously place themselves in his way; and it is on both sides, as it were, understood as a visit, when the servants appear without calling.
Page 280 - ... gentleman two letters of excuses, which with less wit than the epistles of Voiture, had ten times more natural and easy politeness in the turn of their expression. In the postscript, he appointed a meeting at Tyburn at twelve...
Page 205 - You mistake me (answered my friend); every member of our club has the privilege of bringing one friend along with him, who is by no means thereby...
Page 262 - All words, good or bad, are there jumbled indiscriminately together, insomuch that the injudicious reader may speak and write as inelegantly, improperly, and vulgarly as he pleases, by and with the authority of one or other of our word-books. It must be owned that our language is at present in a state of anarchy ; and hitherto, perhaps, it may not have been the worse for it.
Page 103 - And when it was day, certain of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul.
Page 176 - ... weaning his heart from the immoderate love of earthly things, and teaching him to revere the gods, and to place his whole trust and happiness in their government and protection.
Page 72 - Because he had but one to subdue, As was a paltry narrow tub to Diogenes ; who is not said (For aught that ever I could read) To whine, put finger i' th' eye, and sob, Because h
Page 206 - As I found that my friend would have taken a refusal ill, I told him that for this once I would certainly attend him to the club, but desired him to give me previously the outlines of the characters of the sitting members, that I might know how to behave myself properly. "Your precaution (said he) is a prudent one, and I will make you so well acquainted with them beforehand, that you shall not seem a stranger when among them. You must know then that our club consists of at least forty members when...