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Page 7
... character is new varnished . I true affection of my heart , I am go- do not comprehend what my cousin ing to write a long letter upon paper means by their little desires ; if she ungilded and unadorned ; but truth , had said their ...
... character is new varnished . I true affection of my heart , I am go- do not comprehend what my cousin ing to write a long letter upon paper means by their little desires ; if she ungilded and unadorned ; but truth , had said their ...
Page 9
... character , but an absolute defend the nunneries ! as for the gar- and angry monarch in his family ; risons , they will be safe enough . he thinks every man a fool in poli- The father confessors will have more tics who is not angry ...
... character , but an absolute defend the nunneries ! as for the gar- and angry monarch in his family ; risons , they will be safe enough . he thinks every man a fool in poli- The father confessors will have more tics who is not angry ...
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... character had Cupid struck the lean , or the of a Fidget , to bustle into the bus- melancholy , I had not lamented ; but tling world . My appetite for the true Jack Falstaff , kind Jack Fal - country is satisfied , and I should like ...
... character had Cupid struck the lean , or the of a Fidget , to bustle into the bus- melancholy , I had not lamented ; but tling world . My appetite for the true Jack Falstaff , kind Jack Fal - country is satisfied , and I should like ...
Page 41
... characters make love and honour , what sprung in my upon you , and to observe with what mind ? -How loved , how honoured attention you distinguish the tem- once , avails thee not . pers , dispositions , and abilities of I sat to Mrs ...
... characters make love and honour , what sprung in my upon you , and to observe with what mind ? -How loved , how honoured attention you distinguish the tem- once , avails thee not . pers , dispositions , and abilities of I sat to Mrs ...
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... character with the most but I have no room ; our love attends industrious cruelty . As a man he you . has hardly left him the shadow of one good quality . Churlishness in his private life , and a rancorous hatred of every thing royal in ...
... character with the most but I have no room ; our love attends industrious cruelty . As a man he you . has hardly left him the shadow of one good quality . Churlishness in his private life , and a rancorous hatred of every thing royal in ...
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