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... wealth . The visit of Scrotinus to the place of his nativity 324 166 Favour not easily gained by the poor 331 167 The marriage of Hymenæus and Tranquilla 336 168 Poetry debased by mean expressions . An example from Shakes- peare 34.2 ...
... wealth . The visit of Scrotinus to the place of his nativity 324 166 Favour not easily gained by the poor 331 167 The marriage of Hymenæus and Tranquilla 336 168 Poetry debased by mean expressions . An example from Shakes- peare 34.2 ...
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... wealthy beauties , the deep - read Misothea , who declared herself the inex- orable enemy of ignorant pertness , and puerile levity ; and scarcely condescended to make tea , but for the linguist , the geometrician , the astronomer , or ...
... wealthy beauties , the deep - read Misothea , who declared herself the inex- orable enemy of ignorant pertness , and puerile levity ; and scarcely condescended to make tea , but for the linguist , the geometrician , the astronomer , or ...
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... wealthy citizen of London . My father having by his marriage freed the estate from a heavy mortgage , and paid his sisters their portions , thought himself discharged from all obligation to further thought , and entitled to spend the ...
... wealthy citizen of London . My father having by his marriage freed the estate from a heavy mortgage , and paid his sisters their portions , thought himself discharged from all obligation to further thought , and entitled to spend the ...
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... wealth was so well tempered by the vanity of shewing it , that without any other principle of action , he lived in the esteem of the whole com- mercial world ; and was always treated with respect by the only men whose good opinion he ...
... wealth was so well tempered by the vanity of shewing it , that without any other principle of action , he lived in the esteem of the whole com- mercial world ; and was always treated with respect by the only men whose good opinion he ...
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... wealthy family , had been educated in all the wantonness of expense , and softness of effeminacy . He was beautiful in his per- son , and easy in his address , and , therefore , soon gained upon my eye at an age when the sight is very ...
... wealthy family , had been educated in all the wantonness of expense , and softness of effeminacy . He was beautiful in his per- son , and easy in his address , and , therefore , soon gained upon my eye at an age when the sight is very ...
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