Elegant Extracts, Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages from the Best English Authors and Translations: Principally Designed for the Use of Young Persons, Volume 4S. Walker, 1826 |
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Page 7
... ment . He was a great rake , but will see honest sincerity go generally having been japanned and married , worse drest than flattery . In the his character is new varnished . I true affection of my heart , I am go- do not comprehend ...
... ment . He was a great rake , but will see honest sincerity go generally having been japanned and married , worse drest than flattery . In the his character is new varnished . I true affection of my heart , I am go- do not comprehend ...
Page 107
... ment not less ragged than that of roughly convinced that it is fatal to Socrates ? Like Joseph , the patri- true science , an enemy to the fine arch , I am a mighty dreamer of arts , destructive of genuine senti- dreams ; like Nimrod ...
... ment not less ragged than that of roughly convinced that it is fatal to Socrates ? Like Joseph , the patri- true science , an enemy to the fine arch , I am a mighty dreamer of arts , destructive of genuine senti- dreams ; like Nimrod ...
Page 222
... 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 , than any the disposition ...
... 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 , than any the disposition ...
Contents
To the Rev William Unwin | 40 |
To the Rev William Unwin | 42 |
To Lady Hesketh | 46 |
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