Rasselas: A TaleJ. Walker, 1811 - 126 pages |
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... lives in blissful captivity , to which those only were admitted whose performance was thought able to add novelty to luxury . Such was the ap pearance of security and delight which this re- tirement afforded , that they to whom it was ...
... lives in blissful captivity , to which those only were admitted whose performance was thought able to add novelty to luxury . Such was the ap pearance of security and delight which this re- tirement afforded , that they to whom it was ...
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... lives in full conviction that they had all within their reach that art or na- ture could bestow , and pitied those whom nature had excluded from this seat of tranquillity , as the sport of chance and the slaves of misery . Thus they ...
... lives in full conviction that they had all within their reach that art or na- ture could bestow , and pitied those whom nature had excluded from this seat of tranquillity , as the sport of chance and the slaves of misery . Thus they ...
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... lives in tuning one unvaried series of sounds . I likewise can call the lutanist and the singer , but the sounds that pleased me yesterday weary me to - day , and will grow yet more wearisome to- morrow . I can discover in me no power ...
... lives in tuning one unvaried series of sounds . I likewise can call the lutanist and the singer , but the sounds that pleased me yesterday weary me to - day , and will grow yet more wearisome to- morrow . I can discover in me no power ...
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... live together as friends and partners : for he shall always be equal with me , who is equally skilled in the art of growing rich . ' " We laid our money upon camels , concealed in bales of cheap goods , and travelled to the shore of the ...
... live together as friends and partners : for he shall always be equal with me , who is equally skilled in the art of growing rich . ' " We laid our money upon camels , concealed in bales of cheap goods , and travelled to the shore of the ...
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... live in the presence of those who despise him . The invitations , by which they allure others to a state which they feel to be wretched , proceed from the natural malignity of hopeless misery . They are weary of themselves , and of each ...
... live in the presence of those who despise him . The invitations , by which they allure others to a state which they feel to be wretched , proceed from the natural malignity of hopeless misery . They are weary of themselves , and of each ...
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