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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Page 13
... poor I dont see why but you know he has always a very she should borrow you . But I fear , tedious labour when he goes of a let- I am advising in vain , while your ter . I wish he was well delivered of heart , like a fritter , is frying ...
... poor I dont see why but you know he has always a very she should borrow you . But I fear , tedious labour when he goes of a let- I am advising in vain , while your ter . I wish he was well delivered of heart , like a fritter , is frying ...
Page 156
... poor , that under this from them at my little cottage , which humble roof I can have no proud is not so often as to read a great deal . thoughts ; but must have killed every I am so apprehensive , now the wea- grain of worldly pride and ...
... poor , that under this from them at my little cottage , which humble roof I can have no proud is not so often as to read a great deal . thoughts ; but must have killed every I am so apprehensive , now the wea- grain of worldly pride and ...
Page 326
... poor religious building I have ever seen . compensation : as it is , he should The walls of the seraglio are like the marry her . I will have no gay de- walls of Newstead Gardens , only ceivers on my estate , and I shall not higher ...
... poor religious building I have ever seen . compensation : as it is , he should The walls of the seraglio are like the marry her . I will have no gay de- walls of Newstead Gardens , only ceivers on my estate , and I shall not higher ...
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VOL IV | 1 |
From the same to the Duchess of Portland | 7 |
From the same to the same | 13 |
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