Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages from the Best English Authors and Translations, Principally Designed for the Use of Young Persons: Originally Compiled by the Rev. Vicesimus Knos ...Samuel Walker, 1826 |
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... expect only civility in the room circumstances around me , that this of love , for as Mrs. Clive sings , " All I hope of mortal man , Is to love me whilst he can . " " Be- short life may not be half lost in pains , " well remembering ...
... expect only civility in the room circumstances around me , that this of love , for as Mrs. Clive sings , " All I hope of mortal man , Is to love me whilst he can . " " Be- short life may not be half lost in pains , " well remembering ...
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... expect some disa- comfortable ingredients , my silence greeable moments ; but confidence will always be interpreted as an evi- and freedom are the two pillars of dence of content , and you would our union , and I am much mistaken only ...
... expect some disa- comfortable ingredients , my silence greeable moments ; but confidence will always be interpreted as an evi- and freedom are the two pillars of dence of content , and you would our union , and I am much mistaken only ...
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... expect to find the gallery near ment left , I cannot forget you , who finished . They threaten me with have so long been my steady and in- three months before the gilding can variable friend . I cannot leave it to be begun . Twenty ...
... expect to find the gallery near ment left , I cannot forget you , who finished . They threaten me with have so long been my steady and in- three months before the gilding can variable friend . I cannot leave it to be begun . Twenty ...
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From the same to the Duchess of Portland | 7 |
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