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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... tell me she has all the beauties in nature united in her per- son ; as ivory in her forehead , dia- monds in her eyes , & c . " But where's the sense , direct or moral , That teeth are pearl , or lips are coral ? " LETTER XII . From Mrs ...
... tell me she has all the beauties in nature united in her per- son ; as ivory in her forehead , dia- monds in her eyes , & c . " But where's the sense , direct or moral , That teeth are pearl , or lips are coral ? " LETTER XII . From Mrs ...
Page 222
... tell you , that all the ment of the court and ministry is family are well at Prior Park , which yet perhaps as little known to them- I have the pleasure to believe is more selves as to us . All depends upon agreeable to you to know ...
... tell you , that all the ment of the court and ministry is family are well at Prior Park , which yet perhaps as little known to them- I have the pleasure to believe is more selves as to us . All depends upon agreeable to you to know ...
Page 286
... tell you nothing for so unexpected a mark of your good of myself , I can at least tell you favour , made me choose not to delay something bad ; and , after the obli- my gratitude for a single post . I gation you have conferred on me by ...
... tell you nothing for so unexpected a mark of your good of myself , I can at least tell you favour , made me choose not to delay something bad ; and , after the obli- my gratitude for a single post . I gation you have conferred on me by ...
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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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