Memoirs of Richard Cumberland, Volume 1Brisban and Brannan [Printed by Robert Carr], 1805 - 356 pages |
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... feel- ings and affections were at once too impulsive to be long repressed , and he too careless of concealment to attempt at qualifying them . Such was his sensibility towards human sufferings , that it became a duty with his family to ...
... feel- ings and affections were at once too impulsive to be long repressed , and he too careless of concealment to attempt at qualifying them . Such was his sensibility towards human sufferings , that it became a duty with his family to ...
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... feel- ings , and unpropitious to the cultivation and encouragement of his talents . His connexion with Mr. Horace Walpole , the late Lord Orford , had too much of the bitter of dependence in it to be gratify . ing to the taste of a man ...
... feel- ings , and unpropitious to the cultivation and encouragement of his talents . His connexion with Mr. Horace Walpole , the late Lord Orford , had too much of the bitter of dependence in it to be gratify . ing to the taste of a man ...
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... feel nobody could more hap- pily select and recommend . I well remember the care she took to mark out for my observation the peculiar excellence of that unri- valled poet in the consistency and preservation of his characters , and ...
... feel nobody could more hap- pily select and recommend . I well remember the care she took to mark out for my observation the peculiar excellence of that unri- valled poet in the consistency and preservation of his characters , and ...
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... feel my torments present , ' " Then judge if I repent my follies past . " Had I but powers to tell you what I feel , " A tongue to speak my heart's unfeign'd contrition , " Then might I lay the bleeding part before you ; " But ' twill ...
... feel my torments present , ' " Then judge if I repent my follies past . " Had I but powers to tell you what I feel , " A tongue to speak my heart's unfeign'd contrition , " Then might I lay the bleeding part before you ; " But ' twill ...
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... feel my spirits sink , for I had taken a very careful survey of the ground I was upon , and thought myself prepared against any attack he could devise against me . I also saw that all advantages , resulting from the unequal terms on ...
... feel my spirits sink , for I had taken a very careful survey of the ground I was upon , and thought myself prepared against any attack he could devise against me . I also saw that all advantages , resulting from the unequal terms on ...
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