The Spectator, Volume 8William Durell and Company, 1810 - English literature |
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... beauty , color , and sweetness , to some of their choice flowers , which flourish to this day , and which few of the moderns can effect . These are becoming enough and agreeable in their season , and do often handsomely adorn an en ...
... beauty , color , and sweetness , to some of their choice flowers , which flourish to this day , and which few of the moderns can effect . These are becoming enough and agreeable in their season , and do often handsomely adorn an en ...
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... beauty in this Psalm which was entirely new to me , and which I was going to lose ; and that is , that the poet utterly conceals the presence of God in the beginning of it , and rather lets a posses- sive pronoun go without a ...
... beauty in this Psalm which was entirely new to me , and which I was going to lose ; and that is , that the poet utterly conceals the presence of God in the beginning of it , and rather lets a posses- sive pronoun go without a ...
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... beauty till she moved : all the charms of an agreeable person are then in their highest exertion , every limb and feature appears with its respective grace , It is from this ob- servation , that I cannot help being so passionate an ...
... beauty till she moved : all the charms of an agreeable person are then in their highest exertion , every limb and feature appears with its respective grace , It is from this ob- servation , that I cannot help being so passionate an ...
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... beauty ; and , I dare say , there is no one who knew him well , but can repeat more well - turned com- pliments , as well as smart repartees , of Mr. East- court's , than of any other man in England . This was easily to be observed in ...
... beauty ; and , I dare say , there is no one who knew him well , but can repeat more well - turned com- pliments , as well as smart repartees , of Mr. East- court's , than of any other man in England . This was easily to be observed in ...
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... beauty still to beauty ranging , ' In ev'ry face I found a dart . ' ' Twas first a charming shape enslav'd'me , ' An eye then gave the fatal stroke ; " Till by her wit Corinna sav'd me , ' And all my former fetters broke . ' But now a ...
... beauty still to beauty ranging , ' In ev'ry face I found a dart . ' ' Twas first a charming shape enslav'd'me , ' An eye then gave the fatal stroke ; " Till by her wit Corinna sav'd me , ' And all my former fetters broke . ' But now a ...
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