The British Essayists: The LoungerJ. Richardson, 1823 |
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... hope for their labours consists often in the opportunity of coming down with advantage to the region of the latter ; like the hero of a pageant , who looks forward to the hour when he shall undo his trappings , and enjoy , in his plain ...
... hope for their labours consists often in the opportunity of coming down with advantage to the region of the latter ; like the hero of a pageant , who looks forward to the hour when he shall undo his trappings , and enjoy , in his plain ...
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... of the question . I hope , colonel , you have been well entertained , ' 6 said the mistress of the box , at the 30 6 . THE LOUNGER . Letter from a member of the Mirror Club, relating some particulars of that society Abercromby.
... of the question . I hope , colonel , you have been well entertained , ' 6 said the mistress of the box , at the 30 6 . THE LOUNGER . Letter from a member of the Mirror Club, relating some particulars of that society Abercromby.
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... hope I am not , looks on every one of these young creatures in some measure as a daughter ; and when I think how many children of that sort I have lost - for there are a thousand ways of a beauty's dying - it almost brings tears into my ...
... hope I am not , looks on every one of these young creatures in some measure as a daughter ; and when I think how many children of that sort I have lost - for there are a thousand ways of a beauty's dying - it almost brings tears into my ...
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... hope you think better of me than to suppose so . ' But I may come down from my declamation . Yonder are a set , fluttering in that box there , - young , to be sure , but they will never be older , ex- cept in wrinkles - I don't suppose ...
... hope you think better of me than to suppose so . ' But I may come down from my declamation . Yonder are a set , fluttering in that box there , - young , to be sure , but they will never be older , ex- cept in wrinkles - I don't suppose ...
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... hope can ever be accomplished : yet , though not completely removed , it may be partially withdrawn . I have often thought , that should a man be really in earnest in the desire of attaining a knowledge of his own character , there are ...
... hope can ever be accomplished : yet , though not completely removed , it may be partially withdrawn . I have often thought , that should a man be really in earnest in the desire of attaining a knowledge of his own character , there are ...
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