Elegant Extracts, Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose: Selected for the Improvement of Young Persons ; Being Similar in Design to Elegant Extracts in PoetryJ. Johnson, 1808 - 1120 pages An anthology of prose passages primarily from Greek, Roman, and English authors. |
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... pleasure ; and it can , I think , be clearly shewn , that this is not a mere * For God and man and letter'd post denies , That poets ever are of middling size . FRANCIS topic of declamation , but that the con- nexion here alledged , is ...
... pleasure ; and it can , I think , be clearly shewn , that this is not a mere * For God and man and letter'd post denies , That poets ever are of middling size . FRANCIS topic of declamation , but that the con- nexion here alledged , is ...
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... Pleasure recommend- 90 ed 42 Blair . 71 36 Whatever violates Nature cannot afford true Pleasure 42 - 71 37 Irregular Pleasures , bad Effects of 42 72 8 Industry and Application in Youth 43 72 39 Employment of Time 43 - 73 40 Success ...
... Pleasure recommend- 90 ed 42 Blair . 71 36 Whatever violates Nature cannot afford true Pleasure 42 - 71 37 Irregular Pleasures , bad Effects of 42 72 8 Industry and Application in Youth 43 72 39 Employment of Time 43 - 73 40 Success ...
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... Pleasure warbled the song of invitation . Within sight of these rocks , all who sailed on the ocean of Life must necessarily pass . Reason indeed was always at hand to steer the passengers through a narrow outlet , by which they might ...
... Pleasure warbled the song of invitation . Within sight of these rocks , all who sailed on the ocean of Life must necessarily pass . Reason indeed was always at hand to steer the passengers through a narrow outlet , by which they might ...
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... Pleasure , commonly subsided by sensible degrees , contended long with the encroaching waters , and harassed them- selves by labours that scarce Hope herself could flatter with success As I was looking upon the various fate of the ...
... Pleasure , commonly subsided by sensible degrees , contended long with the encroaching waters , and harassed them- selves by labours that scarce Hope herself could flatter with success As I was looking upon the various fate of the ...
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... pleasures , and to try what satisfaction might be found in the society of men . I will not deny the mortification ... pleasure : But I find that I have now lost my charms . Of those with whom I entered the gay world , some are married ...
... pleasures , and to try what satisfaction might be found in the society of men . I will not deny the mortification ... pleasure : But I find that I have now lost my charms . Of those with whom I entered the gay world , some are married ...
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