The Spectator, Volume 3J. Sharpe, 1808 |
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... endeavour to sooth and assuage their secret resentments . Be- sides , jealousy puts a woman often in mind of an ill thing that she would not otherwise perhaps have thought of , and fills her imagination with such an unlucky idea , as in ...
... endeavour to sooth and assuage their secret resentments . Be- sides , jealousy puts a woman often in mind of an ill thing that she would not otherwise perhaps have thought of , and fills her imagination with such an unlucky idea , as in ...
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... endeavour to find out entertainments of both kinds , and by that means perhaps consult the good of both , more than I should do , did I always write to the particu- lar taste of either . As they neither of them know what I proceed upon ...
... endeavour to find out entertainments of both kinds , and by that means perhaps consult the good of both , more than I should do , did I always write to the particu- lar taste of either . As they neither of them know what I proceed upon ...
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... endeavour to make themselves diverting , with- out being immoral . One may apply to these au- thors that passage in Waller : ' Poets lose half the praise they would have got , Were it but known what they discreetly blot . ' As nothing ...
... endeavour to make themselves diverting , with- out being immoral . One may apply to these au- thors that passage in Waller : ' Poets lose half the praise they would have got , Were it but known what they discreetly blot . ' As nothing ...
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... endeavour to gain admirers from their inattention to all around them . Hyæna can loll in her coach , with something so fixed in her countenance , that it is impossible to conceive her meditation is employed only on her dress and her ...
... endeavour to gain admirers from their inattention to all around them . Hyæna can loll in her coach , with something so fixed in her countenance , that it is impossible to conceive her meditation is employed only on her dress and her ...
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... endeavour only to please the worthy , and the man of merit should desire to be tried only by his peers . I thought it a noble senti- ment which I heard yesterday uttered in conversa- tion : I know , ' said a gentleman , a way to be ...
... endeavour only to please the worthy , and the man of merit should desire to be tried only by his peers . I thought it a noble senti- ment which I heard yesterday uttered in conversa- tion : I know , ' said a gentleman , a way to be ...
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