The Englishman: A Novel. In Six Volumes, Volume 4Printed at the Minerva-Press, for A.K. Newman and Company, Leadenhall-Street, 1812 |
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Page 64 - ... may court his mistress, and quaff his cups, and perhaps sprinkle them now and then with a few Dammees ; but who, in the mean time, besides his own wretched, miserable self, knows of those secret, bitter infusions which that terrible thing, called conscience, makes into all his draughts ? Believe it, most of the appearing mirth in the world is not mirth, but art. The wounded spirit is not seen, but walks under a disguise...
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