Elegant Extracts, Or Useful and Entertaining Passages from the Best English Authors and Translations ...S. Walker, 1826 |
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Page 55
... look back upon our fore - reached those years , that are always fathers , we seem to look back upon found upon the borders of another the people of another nation , almost world . As for you , your time of life upon creatures of another ...
... look back upon our fore - reached those years , that are always fathers , we seem to look back upon found upon the borders of another the people of another nation , almost world . As for you , your time of life upon creatures of another ...
Page 165
... looks ; racter , in one of the most delicate for a look will give it . I am speaking circumstances of female life , than of a sensible woman , you know ! -what , at first sight , may be thought such women , scores of which , I was of ...
... looks ; racter , in one of the most delicate for a look will give it . I am speaking circumstances of female life , than of a sensible woman , you know ! -what , at first sight , may be thought such women , scores of which , I was of ...
Page 172
... look up without viewing your on vellum , would delight me , hang- picture ; and I had some hopes the ing before me in view of your dear looking upon it , as I writ , might a sister's and sir Roger's Haigh . Still , little have ...
... look up without viewing your on vellum , would delight me , hang- picture ; and I had some hopes the ing before me in view of your dear looking upon it , as I writ , might a sister's and sir Roger's Haigh . Still , little have ...
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