Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Pieces of Poetry Selected for the Impropvement of Young Persons Being Similar in Design to Elegant Extracts in Prose, 2. köideJ. Johnson, 1801 |
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Page 856
... fame figure , endowed with the fame faculties , and born under the fame laws of nature . We fhall fee the fame virtues and vices , flowing from the fame principles , but varied in a thousand different and contrary modes , according to ...
... fame figure , endowed with the fame faculties , and born under the fame laws of nature . We fhall fee the fame virtues and vices , flowing from the fame principles , but varied in a thousand different and contrary modes , according to ...
Page 860
... fame , and challenges the fame refpect . We applaud the world when the profpers ; and when the falls into adverfity we applaud her . Like the temples of the gods , the is venerable even in her ruins . After this , muft it not appear a ...
... fame , and challenges the fame refpect . We applaud the world when the profpers ; and when the falls into adverfity we applaud her . Like the temples of the gods , the is venerable even in her ruins . After this , muft it not appear a ...
Page 901
... fame level with the chairman at his door . A gentleman would forfeit all pretentions to that title , who thould chufe to embellifh his difcourfe with the oratory of Billingf . gate , and converte in the ftyle of an oyster- woman ; but ...
... fame level with the chairman at his door . A gentleman would forfeit all pretentions to that title , who thould chufe to embellifh his difcourfe with the oratory of Billingf . gate , and converte in the ftyle of an oyster- woman ; but ...
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