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... Fire described - Use of Satire -Distinction between Goldsmiths and Coppersmiths - Stentor Education and Beauty of Women -Letter from the Artillery Ground 62. Sharpers described as a pack of Dogs -On Wit Women the best Speakers Sallust ...
... Fire described - Use of Satire -Distinction between Goldsmiths and Coppersmiths - Stentor Education and Beauty of Women -Letter from the Artillery Ground 62. Sharpers described as a pack of Dogs -On Wit Women the best Speakers Sallust ...
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... fire , ere he his tongue , And I my Percy's death , ere thou report'st it . ' The image in this place is wonderfully noble and great ; yet this man in all this is but rising towards his great affliction , and is still enough himself ...
... fire , ere he his tongue , And I my Percy's death , ere thou report'st it . ' The image in this place is wonderfully noble and great ; yet this man in all this is but rising towards his great affliction , and is still enough himself ...
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... fire : Laura's gen- tleness is thought mean ; Phillis's insolence , spright- ly . Were you to see him at his own house , and his mistress's lodgings ; to Phillis he appears an obse- quious lover , to Laura an imperious master . Nay , so ...
... fire : Laura's gen- tleness is thought mean ; Phillis's insolence , spright- ly . Were you to see him at his own house , and his mistress's lodgings ; to Phillis he appears an obse- quious lover , to Laura an imperious master . Nay , so ...
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... fire . ' Well , ' said he , thou art a brave termagant jade do you know , hussy , that fair wig cost forty guineas ? ' Oh , Laura ! is it for this that the faithful Cromius sighed for you in vain ? How is thy con- dition altered , since ...
... fire . ' Well , ' said he , thou art a brave termagant jade do you know , hussy , that fair wig cost forty guineas ? ' Oh , Laura ! is it for this that the faithful Cromius sighed for you in vain ? How is thy con- dition altered , since ...
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... fires are often put out by the sunshine . ' " The This was a declaration not to be made but upon the highest opinion of a man's sincerity ; yet as much a subject of raillery as such a speech would be , it is certain that chastity is a ...
... fires are often put out by the sunshine . ' " The This was a declaration not to be made but upon the highest opinion of a man's sincerity ; yet as much a subject of raillery as such a speech would be , it is certain that chastity is a ...
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